Vita gazette – A new side effect of Covid-19 has been discovered: the inability to remember familiar faces.

Ivy League university experts in the US stated that a person who contracted the virus at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 “claimed to have had difficulty recognising faces since getting sick.”

According to the news of DailyStar, the claimant, who said that he experienced a situation called “relapse of symptoms” two months after he was caught with Covid-19, told the experts, “It was as if my father’s voice came out of a stranger’s face.” The claimant also claimed he needed help finding directions and remembering the last place he left his belongings. In tests, the claimant, who showed 48 famous faces, could only recognise 29 percent of the celebrities he knew, 84 percent of the public.

This condition, called “prosopagnosia” in the medical world, is known as face blindness or face agnosia (inability to process sensory information).

Brad Duchaine, professor of psychology and brain sciences, said: “One thing that caught our attention was the claimant, his ‘prosopagnosia’ and lack of navigation. These two deficiencies often occur together after a person has suffered brain damage or developmental deficiencies. “This association is likely because these two abilities are linked to adjacent brain regions in the temporal lobe.”

Professor Duchaine said: “It was known that there are broad cognitive problems that Covid-19 can cause, but here we see that the claimant has serious and highly selective problems. This shows that after Covid-19, many other people may have severe and selective deficits. “If this occurs in the visual system, it is likely that selective deficits due to problems in other parts of the brain will also occur in some people.”