While earlier it was thought that children are less affected by the COVID-19, a new report suggested that 74,000 UK kids have already suffered from Long Covid.
It has been over a year since the global pandemic started and researchers are still trying to find out some answers related to the novel virus and how it attacks people from different age groups. In the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was thought that children are less affected by the virus. But now the experts are worried that Coronavirus infected children could end up suffering crippling long-term health problems. As per reports, in the UK almost 74,000 children already have Long COVID—also known as a post-COVID-19 syndrome, in which the patients suffer from the ramification of the SARS-CoV-2 caused disease. The symptoms of Long COVID include headaches, fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain and even paralysis. But according to parents, the condition in minors is brushed off by GPs as the vast majority of children who caught COVID-19 developed no symptoms. Nichola Careless, the mother of a 12-year-old son Mani, said that her son who used to play rugby and football, has been in a wheelchair after contracting the Coronavirus infection in September 2020.
