430,000 Britons have long Covid two years after infection, says ONS
by Pamela Duncan Acting data projects editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6356E)
About 1.5m people in UK say Covid after-effects are adversely affecting daily activities
An estimated 430,000 Britons were still suffering from long Covid two years after first contracting the virus, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics.
One in every 32 people in the UK was estimated to have some form of long Covid at the end of July, equivalent to 2 million people. Of those, around 1.5 million said their symptoms were adversely affecting their daily activities, while 384,000 said their ability to undertake daily activities had been limited a lot".
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