More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest. Some 1.9 million people across the country are currently estimated to be suffering from long Covid, or 2.9% of the population.
This includes 762,000 who first had Covid-19, or suspected they had the virus, at least 24 months previously. The figure is up from 689,000 at the start of January and 514,000 in September 2022.
The latest estimates have been published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and are based on self-reported long Covid from a representative sample of people in private households across the UK in the four weeks to March 5. They also show that 1.3 million people are likely to have long Covid for a least a year, up from 1.2 million in January.
