Study Shows 1 in 5 Australians Experiencing Long COVID After Positive Test

The results show the risk of developing long COVID from the Omicron variant is higher than previously thought.

A study by The Australian National University (ANU) has found around one in five Australians who tested positive for COVID-19 had symptoms consistent with long COVID. Alamy/PA

Around one in five Australians who tested positive for COVID-19 displayed symptoms consistent with long COVID, according to a study by the Australian National University (ANU).

This comes after Queensland’s Chief Health Officer John Gerrard called for the term “long COVID” to be scrapped following a study that found the long-term effects of the virus were no different from the seasonal flu, and that long-term COVID symptoms were not “unique and exceptional” to other viral infections.