International – WHO calls for greater investment into research for millions living with long COVID

Modelling indicates a 307% increase in cases identified between 2020 and 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to take post COVID-19 condition seriously by urgently investing in research, recovery and rehabilitation.

New modelling conducted for WHO by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine in the US, shows that in the first two years of the pandemic, at least 17 million individuals across the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region may have experienced post-COVID-19 condition, also known as long COVID…