People’s experiences of poor health and loneliness have not improved five years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, figures suggest, with a charity warning “lasting” effects of the pandemic are continuing to leave “many people isolated”.
The proportion of people in Britain reporting good or very good health has declined slowly but steadily since March 2020, while the percentage of those saying they feel lonely often or some of the time has remained broadly unchanged, according to analysis of survey data.
