Hopes studies into long Covid will better illuminate how it affects New Zealanders.
The Ministry of Health is funding a range of research into the condition, including a national register of people with symptoms.
Auckland University Health Economics Chair, Paula Lorgelly, says around 10 to 20 percent of people infected get long Covid.
She told Tim Dower that means at least 170,000 New Zealanders have long Covid.
Lorelly says we don't know how it manifests in New Zealand, a place with high vaccinations and no immunity from the first few waves of the pandemic.
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