The charity adds: “There is growing evidence that getting the vaccine could reduce long Covid in people who caught the virus before they were vaccinated. We are still learning more about this and what the reasons for it might be.”
The BHF also explains that long Covid is not contagious, and symptoms are caused by your body’s response to the virus continuing beyond the initial illness.
Moreover, it says having long Covid symptoms won’t cause you to test positive.
It says: “To avoid passing coronavirus on to others, you should self-isolate for 10 days from your original symptoms or positive test, or if after 10 days you still have a temperature, or runny nose or sneezing, or sickness or diarrhoea, until these symptoms have gone.”