NEW MEDICAL CONDITIONS

Hypertension, lung fibrosis & asthma long-term effects of Covid, reveals study

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, defines post-COVID-19 conditions as a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people experience at least four or more weeks after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2. This is used as an umbrella term for a wide range of physical, social and psychological health consequences experienced by patients. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines it as the continuation or development of new symptoms three months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, lasting at least two months with no other explanation.