People suffering from long Covid have been given new hope after an Irish study found fatigue, breathlessness and other symptoms improve after six weeks of virtual exercise sessions. The findings come from Ireland’s first exercised-based recovery programme for Covid-19 in St James’s Hospital in Dublin. The intensity of the sessions increases gradually over time, as the patients build up their exercise tolerance. They were able to walk 34pc further, on average, than at the start of the study – 512.9m versus 382.4m. The overall trend on infections is optimistic although the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital rose yesterday to 535 from 520 on Sunday, possibly due to the weekend effect with a fall expected in the coming days.

Source: Irish Independent April 26, 2022 07:38 UTC