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Africa: WHO Recommends Follow-Up Care, Low-Dose Anticoagulants for Covid-19 Patients
WHO, 26 January 2021
WHO recommends that patients who have COVID-19 - both confirmed and suspected - should have access to follow-up care if they have persistent, new or changing symptoms. Read more »
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Mauritius: How Mauritius Is Tackling NCD Risk Factors in the Context of Covid-19?
WHO, 26 January 2021
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WHO Makes Recommendations for 'Long Haul' Covid-19 Patients
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has said that efforts need to be made to understand the long-term effects of Covid-19 on patients that recovered from the virus. This comes after the WHO found evidence that people who recovered from Covid-19 continue to have longer-term issues like extreme fatigue, persistent cough, and exercise intolerance. Speaking to AFP, Janet Diaz, clinical care lead in the WHO's emergencies programme, said that long Covid - otherwise known as 'post-Covid condition' or 'post-acute Covid syndrome' - is something still not fully understood.
InFocus
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SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has mutated, and there are several variants - one of which, B.1.351, was first detected in South Africa at the beginning of October 2020 ... Read more »
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A year after the novel coronavirus first began to spread around the world, the World Health Organisation says that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency of Read more »
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The World Health Organisation has reflected on the past year since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus which resulted in a global pandemic that disrupted societies and economies ... Read more »
