Recently recovered from Covid-19? You may be back at work but the nasty cough does not seem to be going away.

A lingering cough is a classic symptom of long Covid – that is, the situation where you continue to have Covid-19 symptoms long after recovery. 

According to a study of participants in the United Kingdom, 49.8 per cent of patients infected with the Omicron variant suffered from a lingering cough. Closer to home, a study led by the National Centre for Infectious Diseasesshowed that 10 per cent of recovered Covid-19 patients continued to have lingering coughs and shortness of breath even six months after infection.