As Covid swept the world, it also swept the times.

For some of my colleagues, it was mild.

For others, it meant months in intensive care, and for a third group, including the foreign

correspondent Jane Flanagan, it left them with symptoms that just wouldn't go away.

But no, with Jane's curiosity.

I think there's such a lack of accessible science around it that people who've been off

work for a year, have been ill for a year, just will fall on any crumb of information.

And now, she's starting to get answers.

It's a mixture of horror, because you think, oh my goodness me, that's inside me.

But at the same time, you think, oh, there's a good reason.

I'm not fully functioning, because this is what's in my blood.

We're all listening to stories of our times, from the times and the Sunday times.

I'm Manvin Rana, today.

What causes long Covid?

I'm Jane Flanagan, and I'm the Africa correspondent of the Times, and I'm based in South Africa.

Jane, I remember you got Covid around the same time as I did last autumn.

I think you were sort of a week ahead of me.

What was your experience of it?

It was back in August, so I think I was still sort of in the throes of it when I understood

that you had it.

I remember getting in touch, didn't I, and saying, this isn't nothing, Manvin, you know,

your feet up.

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