Persistent Covid: WHO seeks to study effects | It is one of the least known forms of the disease

The The World Health Organization (WHO) will collect data on patients with persistent coronavirus, as part of an international project, in order to have more precise information on the consequences of the disease.

The project will be carried out with the VSInternational Association of Acute and Serious Respiratory Infections (ISARIC) and it will have two phases which should culminate in 2022.

Despite the “large percentage” of patients who end up suffering from persistent covid, “The evidence on this problem is limited and based on small samples of patients followed for a short time,” they said from ISARIC.

“There is a urgent need to optimize and standardize the collection of clinical data ” about this disease, the WHO added in a statement. The project will start by monitoring people with persistent covid.

Nearly 205 million cases of covid have been officially recorded worldwide since the detection of the new coronavirus in December 2019 in China, according to data compiled by AFP from official reports. Corn the number of people with persistent covid is unknown.

The WHO said last week it was working to develop better rehabilitation programs for these types of patients.