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Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the number of people living with long COVID and (b) the (i) severity and (ii) duration of their symptoms: and what assessment he has made of research re

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
27 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 22 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the number of people living with long COVID and (b) the (i) severity and (ii) duration of their symptoms: and what assessment he has made of research re

  2. 27 Oct 2025

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  3. 27 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The most recent data from the Winter COVID-19 Infection Study, a joint study carried out by the Office for National Statistics and the UK Health Security Agency, shows that, for the period 8 February 2024 to 6 March 2024, an estimated 1,140,000 people, or...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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