Long Covid
(asked on 12th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people with Long Covid in England.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 17th November 2021
The Department uses estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics which states that as of 2 October 2021, 1,036,000 people living in private households in England were experiencing self-reported symptoms for more than four weeks and 731,000 people for at least 12 weeks.