Long Covid: Older People
(asked on 18th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of how many people aged over 50 are suffering from long covid.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st July 2023
No recent estimate has been made.
The last published estimate from the Office of National Statistics is that for the four-week period ending 5 March 2023, 960,000 people in private households in the United Kingdom over the age of 50 reported experiencing long COVID symptoms.