It finds that symptoms, on average, lasted for five days in children aged five to 11, and seven days in 12- to 17-year-olds. Just over 4 per cent experienced symptoms for four weeks or more, while one in 50 had symptoms lasting more than two months.
The study, published in the Lancet journal, is based on data on 1,734 children’s Coronavirus symptoms, as reported by parents through the Zoe smartphone app between September 2020 and February 2021 –coinciding with the reopening of schools in the autumn and the peak of the winter wave when there was widespread availability of Covid testing.
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