This, the authors said, was a commonly reported problem among those experiencing 'brain fog' after recovering from Covid. Results showed the Covid survivors were on average less accurate and had slower response times than the public.Ĭovid survivors scored particularly poorly on tasks relating to finding appropriate words for a problem, called 'verbal analogies' in the test. These test results were then compared against the scores done by 66,008 members of the general public, with 460 selected for direct comparison based on patient demographics.
They underwent a range of memory, attention and reasoning tests six months after their ordeal. A third had been hooked up to ventilators. Researchers tested the cognitive skills of 46 patients who were hospitalised with the virus in 2020. Meanwhile, South Africa has once again become a focal point of the pandemic amid a fresh Covid surge of new subvariants.Ĭovid cases have nearly quadrupled in a month nationally and hospital admissions are ticking up in Gauteng province, the former epicentre of the original Omicron wave.īeing hospitalised with Covid could age your brain by two decades, a Government-funded study warned today.Ĭambridge University experts say the effect is the equivalent of losing roughly 10 IQ points.ĭozens of studies have found Covid damages brain function, the scientists claim this is first study of its kind to assess the impact.
Pressure is mounting on the UK to scrap its daily Covid stats after Ireland said it would discontinue its updates in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, latest Covid hospital data shows there were 1,198 new admissions for the virus on April 27, which marked a near-19 per cent decrease on the previous week.ĭaily hospitalisations have now fallen for 22 days in a row - despite NHS leaders calling for masks and outdoor mixing to return just weeks ago.
There were also 407 total deaths, equivalent of just over 100 daily.Ĭase numbers logged by the central testing scheme are becoming increasingly unreliable now that free swabs have been stopped for the vast majority of Britons. It shows there were 35,635 new positive Covid tests over the last four days, working out at an average of just 8,900 daily cases since Friday.
This is the social network aspect, and we are obsessed with it.Just over 35,000 Britons have tested positive for Covid since Friday and 400 deaths have been registered in the same time, official data shows.Ī delay to the Government's dashboard update on bank holiday Monday means today's stats include four days' worth of numbers - after ministers stopped publishing the figures on weekends following 'Freedom Day'.
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