U3A Denia quiz Long shadow of covid

UP to 30 per cent of patients with long covid are currently off work and half are suffering depression.

According to the specialised departments set up at hospitals throughout Alicante Province to monitor the longterm effects of the disease, an estimated 90,000 residents are thought to have suffered long covid.

Up to 200 different symptoms have been described by the experts, from respiratoryrelated conditions such as fatigue and shortness of breath to muscular problems and neurological complications such as memory loss, insomnia and headaches.

Depression results in many cases due to both the effects of the long-term disease itself and the fact that the other symptoms prevent patients from performing previous jobs or activities.

But numbers of patients on work leave are said to be gradually decreasing as their conditions improve, mainly those who were infected in the first wave of the disease, and experts suggest Omicron causes less long covid than previous strains, which with the vaccine is resulting in less new cases.