Leveraging on Rehabilitation in Long Covid Management

Abstract

Several cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on 31
Dec. 2019 while novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 was subsequently identified as causative
factor ofCOVID-19. It thenspread from that first cluster in Wuhan to become a public health emergency
of international concern (PHEIC) and was later recognised by WHO as a pandemic.The COVID-19
pandemic has since caused unprecedented public health challenge and reorganization of the world
order. Long term effects of COVID-19 (Long COVID) was recognized in 2020 summer. It wasinitially
described as symptoms that lasted for longer than 4weeks before a better definition came up as
symptoms persisting for 12weeks and beyond. The cardiopulmonary, neurological and musculoskeletal
presentations in Long COVID makes leveraging on rehabilitation in its management inevitable.