Of concern are official statistics (01/04) released today by Great Britain and concern the coronavirus. Nearly one in seven people in the country who tested positive still had symptoms, three months after recovering.
Based on a study by the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) for the so-called “Long Covid”, 13.7% in a sample of more than 20,000 people, who had been infected with the virus between 26 April 2020-6 March 2021, had symptoms such as fatigue and muscle aches for at least twelve weeks.
These prolonged symptoms were more pronounced in women (14.7%) than in men (12.7%), as well as in patients aged 25-34 years (18.2%).
In total, according to ONS and as relayed by APE-MPE, 1.1 million people in the UK, who tested positive for coronavirus or believe they have been infected, said on March 6 that they have symptoms of “long Covid”. AOf these, 697,000 had first been infected with the virus at least 12 weeks earlier and 70,000 a year earlier.
Expressing “very concerned” by these numbers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News that the British government intended to fund further research “to understand the long Covid”.
He also called on citizens to be extra vigilant, as Britain, which has nearly 127,000 deaths from the pandemic, begins to gradually restart its economy.
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