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Participants over 15\u2009years or guardians of younger children were surveyed by telephone between November 2022 and April 2023. Ordinal logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of Covid\u201019 infection on self\u2010reported health.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study included 4264 children and young adults, with 70.6% reporting having tested positive for Covid\u201019 at least once (via PCR or RAT test). Almost one\u2010quarter (24.5%) reported more frequent coughs, colds and stomach bugs after Covid\u201019 infection. One\u2010fifth reported headaches (21.7%), fatigue (20.6%) or stomach aches (14.6%) and 13.1% reported anxiety that was new since having Covid\u201019. At baseline, there were no significant differences between the self\u2010rated health status of those children who later had Covid\u201019 and those who did not (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.5274). 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