The Burden: Kiwis with Long Covid speak out

While the rest of New Zealand tries to move on from the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of the “team of five million” have no choice but to remain behind. People with Long Covid – which is estimated to affect anywhere from 2 percent to 20 percent of all Covid-19 cases – find themselves suffering silently, invisibly, while the rest of the world strives to forget.
For a three-part series on Long Covid (part one can be found here), Newsroom spoke to four of the thousands of silent sufferers. These are their stories.