LONG-TERM PATHOLOGICAL SIDE EFFECTS OF INFECTION WITH THE COVID-19 VIRUS IN THE MOSUL CITY
Authors: Adress ALNUIMY Arwa 
Published: May 2023

Background: The world witnessed a crisis that swept out almost all of humanity's future, namely the spread of a coronavirus virus known as Covid19 Although it is a microorganism that cannot be seen with the naked eye and parasitizes on humans, animals and plants, it is the cause of a universal crisis in which people have been forced to stop their lives and stay in homes, Just as it has been disastrous for public health, it has disrupted health care systems and daily life , COVID-19 had spread at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, Hunan Province, where the seafood market is. The virus is spread quickly and later reach to all parts of the world , The impact of Covid-19 was not only severe, but it also caused complex long-term complications as a result of the complexity of the virus itself, and the virus had lasting effects on physical and psychological public health, Despite the complex negative complications caused by Covid-19, we can understand some of the mechanisms that cause these complications from the repercussions of the long-term negative effects caused by the types of Corona viruses that preceded Covid-19, namely SARS and MERS , But this requires raising awareness and conducting more studies to find out how to effectively manage the severe consequences caused by COVID-19 and to benefit from previous lessons in order to achieve the best results. Objectives: The study was conducted to identify long-term negative effects of Covid19 infection in the city of Mosul, the center of the Iraqi governorate of Nineveh. Methods: The number of sample members from whom the data was collected was 510 people of both sexes and of all ages, recording as many statistics as possible that illustrate the side effects of a covid - 19 infection. When we finished collecting the data and verifying that there are no errors, we conducted an analysis of these data and this statistical analysis of the data comes for the purpose of extracting and interpreting the results. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.20 was used to find tables and columns for frequencies and percentages. Results: The study has shown that Covid19 infection has many long-term negative effects on many organs and systems in the body and it is one of the most important results of our study, The study found that the highest age group involved in the study was between 36-45, with a percentage of 39.2%, The percentage of females is higher than males at 68.6% , As for the negative effects, Covid-19 caused damage to the lungs and chronic bronchitis had the highest rate of 29.4% , As for the long-term effects of Covid-19 infection on the kidneys, Cystoureteropyelitis was the highest with a rate of 44.1% , While Tachycardia had the highest percentage of cardiovascular diseases with a rate of 67.1% , On the side of neurological diseases, chronic headache was the highest, and it was 60.6% , As for skin diseases, the percentage was 38%, the largest was Lipsotrichia , In Ophthalmology, 69.9% of the share of Blurred vision, and ear diseases Oxyacoia has 51.2% , As for mental illnesses, there were many diseases, and the highest percentage was Anxious 22.1% , As for other diseases, Nervous colon was the highest with a rate of 15.9%, and for many other diseases, with different rates. Conclusion: The results of the study conducted in the city of Mosul showed that Covid19 infection caused many long-term illnesses that must concerted efforts to get the best results in their treatment