Over 750k Brits plagued by long Covid symptoms for at least a year
MORE than three-quarters of a million people say they have had Covid for at least a year, new figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate 1.7million were likely to be experiencing symptoms of long Covid in the four weeks to March 5.
This includes 784,000 people who first had Covid, or suspected they had the virus, at least a year ago.
The total is up from 1.5million a month earlier and is the highest number so far.
Almost a third of a million people said their day-to-day activities have been “limited a lot”, the ONS reported.
Fatigue is the most common symptom followed by shortness of breath, loss of smell and muscle ache.
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The ONS figures are based on self-reported long Covid from a representative sample of people in private households in the four weeks to March 5.
Self-reported long Covid is defined as symptoms persisting for more than four weeks after a first suspected coronavirus infection that could not be explained by something else.
Nearly 3,000 more Covid deaths have been added to the UK total after a data error.
The figure is now 169,095.
