Long Covid

Long Covid

NHS help for you

There are already specialist Long Covid clinics in NHS England, to which you can be referred by your GP. 

Ensure fully funded and staffed
NHS Long Covid Clinics
in all UK nations. 

Ensure GPs are fully funded. 

GP to first give blood tests 
to see if you are suffering
under active Thyroid,
as symptoms are very similar. 


From Statista, chart, of UK level of people suffering Long Covid up to April 2022

Kind of age and gender of people with Long Covid

Information from government's Office of National Statistics, release date 6 May 2022

  • As a proportion of the UK population,
    prevalence of self-reported long COVID was greatest in:

      •  people aged 35 to 49 years, 
      • females, 
      • people living in more deprived areas, 
      • those working in social care, teaching and education or health care, and 
      • those with another activity-limiting health condition or disability.


How Many Long Covid Sufferers?

An estimated 1.8 million people living in private households in the UK (2.8% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 3 April 2022.  

  • Long Covid is symptoms persisting for more than four weeks after the first suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that were not explained by something else) 

  • Of people with self-reported long COVID - 

      • 382,000 (21%) first had (or suspected they had) COVID-19 less than 12 weeks previously, 

      • 1.3 million people (73%) at least 12 weeks previously,

      • 791,000 (44%) at least one year previously and 

      • 235,000 (13%) at least two years previously.


  • Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the
    day-to-day activities of :
      • 1.2 million people
        (67% of those with self-reported long COVID), 
      • with 346,000 (19%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been "limited a lot".

  • Fatigue continued to be the most common symptom reported as part of individuals' experience of long COVID (51% of those with self-reported long COVID),
    • followed by shortness of breath (33%), 
    • loss of sense of smell (26%), and 
    • difficulty concentrating (23%).

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