BBC News: Longest Covid infection lasted more than 16 months, tests show

"UK doctors believe they have documented the longest Covid infection on record - a patient they treated who had detectable levels of the virus for more than 16 months, or 505 days, in total.
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This is different to "long Covid", where the virus is cleared from the body but symptoms persist."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61173945

 

A false statement that needs correcting. There is enough good evidence already that this is not the case in some patients.

 

They've now edited to: "This is different to "long Covid", where symptoms persist after the infection has gone." and linked to the NHS page for long-Covid.

 

Which begs the question: is the infection gone if you have long-covid symptoms and there is evidence of viral persistence in tissue?