According to a World Health Organisation official, almost 36 million people in Europe may have had long covid

According to the regional director of the World Health Organisation, about 36 million individuals in Europe may have suffered long-term health issues as a result of coronavirus infections they acquired during the first three years of the Covid-19 epidemic.

“Long Covid” is still “a complex condition (about which) we still know very little,” according to Dr. Hans Kluge, and “a glaring blind spot in our knowledge.”

Kluge emphasised the need of immunisation for older folks, those with underlying medical disorders, and those with compromised immune systems, warning that without extensive diagnoses and treatment for long Covid, the epidemic will never be fully contained.

 

Even while most patients with Covid-19 recover within a few weeks after contracting it, some people have reported continuing lethargy, shortness of breath, and mental confusion.

 

More than 900 million people live in the 53 nations that make up WHO’s area of Europe, which stretches from Ireland to Uzbekistan. According to statistics from University of Washington researchers, one in 30 people in the area had reported having “long Covid” in the last three years, according to Kluge.

 

The virus that caused hitherto unimaginable lockdowns, destabilised economies, and murdered millions of people globally has no known origin.

 

The World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 to no longer be a worldwide emergency last month. More than three years after the WHO designated the coronavirus as a worldwide crisis, the statement was made.

 

Noting recent rises in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, the UN health agency said that this did not indicate the epidemic had stopped.

 

According to Kluge, “Covid-19 exploited an epidemic of diseases in Europe, including chronic lung diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancers, which account for 75% of mortality.”

 

“Those with such underlying conditions were, and still are, far more vulnerable to severe forms of Covid-19,” the author said.