Queenslanders are flooding GPs practices with heart problems sparked by long Covid, the state’s peak medical body has revealed.

Doctors are seeing more patients with myocarditis and pericarditis due to inflammation caused by the virus that can cause palpitations chest pain or shortness of breath.

“We are now seeing the impact of long Covid which makes it clear that Queenslanders should be more aware of taking precautions. Prolonged symptoms can be very severe in some people,” Australian Medical Association Queensland president Maria Boulton told The Courier-Mail.