Long COVID - Update Please see a Long COVID update below, including additional information from the coding manager at the Waikato DHB. It has been confirmed the Z2201 and Z2202 are READ codes, which are used in primary care. Patients who are hospitalised with persistent symptoms/conditions after having COVID-19 should have the symptoms/conditions coded with U07.4 Post COVID-19 condition if the clinical documentation indicates the symptoms/conditions are due to previously confirmed COVID-19. As per the below slide from WHO the term ‘post COVID condition’ can also be known as ‘chronic COVID syndrome’, ‘long COVID’, see below for other terms.
The Twelfth Edition papers confirm that ‘long COVID’ and ‘post COVID syndrome’ is included in the classification.