Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK are currently suffering with long covid.

The Department uses estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics on the prevalence of ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 infection in the United Kingdom. Estimates are based on the self-reporting of ongoing symptoms by study participants rather than a clinical diagnosis. The Office for National Statistics estimates that as of 1 June 2022, 1,988,000 people living in private households in the UK were experiencing self-reported symptoms for more than four weeks and 1,437,000 people for at least 12 weeks.