Long Covid
(asked on 15th 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 estimate he has made of the number of people with long covid, by age category.
The Department uses estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics which is shown in the following table, as of 2 October 2021.
Age group | Estimate of number of people self-reporting symptoms at four weeks | Estimate of number of people self-reporting symptoms at 12 weeks |
2 to 11 years old | 20,000 | 9,000 |
12 to 16 years old | 49,000 | 24,000 |
17 to 24 years old | 142,000 | 75,000 |
25 to 34 years old | 173,000 | 124,000 |
35 to 49 years old | 310,000 | 228,000 |
50 to 69 years old | 406,000 | 314,000 |
70 years old and over | 103,000 | 74,000 |