The effects of Covid-19 on mental health can't be understated (Image: GETTY) Covid-19 has been associated with mental illness, with both hospital and population-based studies previously proving this. However, the extent to which the virus could affect people’s mental health up to a year after recovering has now been unveiled. Researchers from five universities across the UK have put their all into deciphering the effects of Covid -19 on mental health in a newly published study .

Taking into account whether patients had been vaccinated or hospitalised, it found that a unique combination left some people 16 times more likely to develop a serious mental illness after their bout of Covid . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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