By Kate Kelland
Publishing a World Health Organization-led guidance report on the condition, often referred to as “long COVID” or “post-COVID syndrome”, experts said around one in 10 COVID-19 patients are still unwell 12 weeks after their acute infection, and many suffer symptoms for far longer.
“This is a condition that can be extremely debilitating. Those suffering from it describe a varying combination of overlapping symptoms… (including) chest and muscle pain, fatigue, shortness of breath … brain fog (and) many others,” said Martin McKee, a professor at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies who led the report.
Hans Kluge, the WHO’s European regional director, said long-COVID could have “severe social, economic, health and occupational consequences”.
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Richard Roels first came down with COVID-19 last March. Nearly a year on, he s still suffering the debilitating symptoms of the disease. Courtesy photo
GENEVA Richard Roels first came down with COVID-19 last March. Nearly a year on, he s still suffering the debilitating symptoms of the disease.
Last weekend Roels tried to go for a walk, but his legs seized up, forcing him to lie down in a car park before calling a taxi home. I m told I m not the same person, said Roels. I know that s true, but it s just a really difficult thing to come to terms with.