That’s because of the extra stress your body is under to fight the virus. Whether you feel it or not, the immune system is working hard to get rid of the live infection, so why add extra load with a workout your body needs to push through and recover from? For that reason, Breach and her team don’t encourage exercise even in asymptomatic cases.

Plus, Breach warns of the fact that up to 22% of Covid cases also experience ‘acute cardiac injury’, and there’s evidence that some Covid cases are associated with myocarditis – “an inflammation of the heart muscle induced by the virus”. Therefore, adding cardiovascular strain isn’t recommended for those who have the active virus “in order to maintain cardiac health,” she says. But this is unchartered territory – the risk may be negligible but we just don’t know yet. “Exercise has a number of health benefits both for our physical and mental health. However, these need to be balanced with the risk of inducing other symptoms if exercising with Covid,” Breach adds.

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