LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Thousands of COVID-19 patients continue to suffer serious, debilitating and lingering symptoms many months after their initial bout of infection, with major social, health and economic consequences, European health experts said on Thursday.
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.
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".
He urged health authorities to listen to patients' concerns, take them seriously, and establish services to help them.
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