‘The fatigue has lasted for months and months’: Meet the 'long haulers' living with the long-term impact of Covid-19

By day four of presenting with coronavirus symptoms, on 19 March, Tobi Rachel Akingbade, from London, felt so scared she called NHS 111. The 28-year-old, who believes she contracted the virus from colleagues who tested positive (although she herself was never tested) says she felt like “she’d been run over by a truck and then thrown off a cliff” – even the muscles in her face ached and her eyes hurt. Tobi, who has no underlying health conditions, says she was told by the operator to call back only if she stopped breathing.