It seems many people are suffering with a bad cough, and it is not just Covid.

Many people have got the sniffles and a cough that just won’t budge, and after doing a lateral flow test realise it is not Covid.

However, an Oxfordshire pharmacist claims that although he has had people come in with persistent coughs, he believes it is the effects of long Covid.

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He said that more people are buying cough medicine, lozenges and being prescribed inhalers, due to the lasting effects of Covid.

Have you had a cough recently? Let us know.

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