Long Covid now affecting over 380,000 for more than 12 months

The latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published on 5 August shows that around 945,000 people in private households throughout the UK are self-reporting symptoms of Long Covid. This represents a slight decrease from over one million people reported by the ONS in early June. Covering the four-week period ending 4 July, the statistics show that of the total number of people recording Long Covid symptoms, 88.4% (835,000) first had (or suspected they had) Covid-19 at least 12 weeks previously, while 40.2% (380,000) first had the virus, or suspected they had the virus...