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    ‘No one is talking about it’: the cruelty of long Covid in the global south

    With 651m documented Covid cases worldwide, that would mean 65 million individuals have long Covid.

    As research focuses on richer parts of world, people in less developed countries suffer from lack of awareness and support

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    Thomas Graham in La Paz, Amrit Dhillon in Delhi and Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi
    Thu 13 Jul 2023 16.00 BST
    In the Hospital del Norte of El Alto, a working-class city in Bolivia, visibly sick patients queue for a consultation with a surgeon. At their feet, two stray dogs sleep on a floor strewn with coca leaves.

    Dr Silverio Condori, 49, was here when the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Bolivia. He fell sick in June 2020 and spent two months in one of the country’s few intensive care units. “I came back from another world,” he said.

    “When I got out of hospital, I had to learn to walk, to eat, even to speak,” Condori added, pointing to a neat horizontal tracheotomy scar at the base of his throat. “I still have some paralysis in my right side. I’m a surgeon, but I can’t operate. At least I’m still here, thank God.”

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