According to data from a study done by the University of Washington School of Medicine center for the WHO and presented in Tel Aviv, there was a significant 307 percent increase in new long-term covid cases identified between 2020 and 2021.
At least 17 million people in the 53 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) European region have suffered “prolonged Covid in the first two years of the pandemic”, it was announced this Tuesday, September 13.
According to research presented at the annual meeting of the WHO Committee for Europe in Tel Aviv, Israel, more than 17 million people in the European region would have experienced “a post-covid-19 condition, also known as prolonged covid”, suffering ” a duration of symptoms of at least three months in 2020 and 2021”
According to data from a study done by the Center at the University of Washington School of Medicine for the WHO and presented in Tel Aviv, there was a significant 307 percent increase in new long-term Covid cases identified between 2020 and 2021.
Women, according to the study, “are more likely than men to have long-term covid”, while “the risk increases dramatically” when it comes to serious patients with covid-19. In these cases, one in three women may suffer from persistent covid, the same as one in five men.
“These data highlight the urgent need for more analysis, more investment, more support and more solidarity” with those suffering from prolonged Covid,” said Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, on the second day of the 72nd meeting. of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, which started on Monday and ends on Wednesday.
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