Record 2 mln people in UK have long COVID: survey – China.org.cn

LONDON, June 2 (Xinhua) — An estimated 2 million people in Britain have lingering COVID-19 symptoms more than four weeks after their initial coronavirus infection, a latest survey showed. Based on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey of people living in private households in Britain, an estimated 3.1 percent of the population were experiencing long COVID symptoms as of May 1. This is 200,000 more people than the ONS’s previous estimated prevalence of 1.8 million, as of April 3. Of the estimated 2 million people with self-reported long COVID, 442,000 (22 percent) first had (or suspected they had) COVID-19…