{"id":1629865,"date":"2024-04-25T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1678060"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:51:09","slug":"long-covid-rates-hit-two-million-as-tories-ramp-up-the-war-on-disabled-and-chronically-ill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/25\/long-covid-rates-hit-two-million-as-tories-ramp-up-the-war-on-disabled-and-chronically-ill-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid rates hit TWO MILLION as Tories ramp up the war on disabled and chronically ill people"},"content":{"rendered":"
New government statistics have confirmed what millions of people already knew. Specifically, this was that cases of long Covid<\/a> across the UK are rampant and ever on the rise – now up to two million people. Of course, for people living the daily realities of this devastating chronic illness especially, the news didn’t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n On Thursday 25 April, the UK government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) released<\/a> the results of its ‘Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study’.<\/p>\n Predictably, these latest figures showed that long Covid cases are soaring. According to the survey, at least two million people – 3.3% – of England and Scotland’s population are currently living with long Covid.<\/p>\n The ONS also broke its data down by age group. In particular, it showed that the percentages for different age demographics self-reporting long Covid ranged from between 1% to 5%. Specifically, it found that long Covid is affecting:<\/p>\n Perhaps most significantly, the ONS data estimated that the largest proportion of people in these cases had been living with the devastating chronic illness for over three years.<\/p>\n It detailed that 30.6% – nearly a third – of people had lived with long Covid or over 156 weeks (more than 3 years). On top of this, over 20% have lived with it for over two years – the next highest percentage. Taken together, it shows that at least one million people across England and Scotland are still battling the post-viral fallout from the devastating coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n However, the huge number of people living with long Covid didn’t come as a surprise to some. Despite this, the figures did also leave others scratching their heads.<\/p>\n Long Covid groups and people living with the post-viral chronic illness took to X to highlight the ramifications of the new statistics.<\/p>\n As Long Covid Support said, the ONS figures are clear on one thing in particular: that the “pandemic is not over”:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New ONS data on Long Covid show that it is getting worse, not better — Long Covid Support (@long_covid) April 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLong Covid widespread and rising<\/h2>\n
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Long Covid – the pandemic is “not over”<\/h2>\n
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Now 2m people in England and Scotland, compared with 1.9m in the whole of UK in Mar 23
The pandemic is not over and every day someone contracts an infection which will disable them https:\/\/t.co\/7fuwlwhVup<\/a><\/p>\n