Prevalence of Long Covid symptoms continues to grow throughout the UK

The latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published on 2 September shows that around 970,000 people in private households throughout the UK are self-reporting symptoms of Long Covid. While this represents a slight decrease from over one million people reported by the ONS in early June, it shows a month-on-month increase of 25,000 between July and August. Covering the four-week period ending 1 August, the statistics show that of the total number of people recording Long Covid symptoms, 84% (817,000) first had (or suspected they had) Covid-19 at least 12 weeks previou...