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

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

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.