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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ian Jones

‘More than a million people’ in UK have had long Covid for at least a year

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More than one million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had coronavirus at least a year ago, while half a million first had the virus more than two years ago, new figures suggest.

A total of 2.3 million people across the country are now estimated to be suffering from long Covid, or 3.5% of the population.

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