Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with covid-19 who have developed long covid since March 2020.

‘Long COVID-19’, which is thought to affect more than 60,000 people in the United Kingdom, can cause continuing fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness and pain. NHS England has commissioned the National Institute for Health Research to undertake further research into ‘long COVID-19’ and will work with 10,000 patients to better understand it and to refine appropriate treatment. Information on the findings will be published in due course.