How long does loss of smell last after COVID-19?

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A year on after COVID-19, most but not all people who lost their sense of smell have seen it fully restored. International researchers tested 51 patients who lost their sense of smell for more than seven days when they contracted COVID-19, a year after they had the virus. Four months after the virus, eight patients still did not have a normal sense of smell, eight months later, six of that group had recovered. They add that after a year, the remaining two patients' schnozzes had still not fully recovered.