European Commission to address Long COVID

BRUSSELS, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission will on Tuesday launch a 2-million-euro (2.2 million U.S. dollars) project aimed at addressing Long COVID, which had affected 36 million people across Europe in the first three years of the pandemic according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Commission said on Monday.

Long COVID has cost the EU economy 0.2 percent to 0.3 percent of gross domestic product in output loss in 2022 due to reduced labour supply, according to the Commission estimate.