GENEVA: With nearly 200 million people known to have had COVID-19, the WHO said on Wednesday (Aug 4) it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with long COVID-19. The World Health Organization urged people struggling with the after-effects of the virus - despite having recov
GENEVA: With nearly 200 million people known to have had COVID-19, the WHO said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with long COVID-19.
"We don't know for how long these effects last and we're even working on a case definition to better understand and describe what this post-COVID syndrome is," said Van Kerkhove. Little is known about why some people, after coming through the acute phase, struggle to recover and suffer ongoing symptoms including shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and brain fog as well as cardiac and neurological disorders.
Studies can only go back as far as the first patients to recover from COVID-19, which first emerged in China in December 2019.Diaz said some people seemed to have post-COVID-19 conditions for three months, and others up to six months.
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