Expert body to analyse long-term effects of COVID-19

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has appointed a long COVID expert group to monitor and analyse the information and experience gathered both nationally and internationally about the long-term effects of COVID-19, also known as long COVID, said an official press release on Wednesday.

The term of the expert group runs from 1 September 2021 to 31 December 2022.

The group will be chaired by Risto O. Roine, Professor of Neurology. The members were invited to the group on the basis of their consent.

People have reported many different types of long-term symptoms, and even inability to work and function, after recovering from the COVID-19 infection.

More and more research-based information and experience about long COVID are becoming available both in Finland and internationally.

Research data and expert views need to be coordinated nationally and analysed jointly by experts so that we can react and take measures in a way that is proportionate and based on accurate information.