More than 5 per cent of adults in Ireland are living with symptoms of long Covid, according to a new survey.

From a sample size of 1,004 people, 7 per cent said that in the past four weeks they had experienced symptoms of long Covid following a period of infection, according to the Ireland Thinks poll. Of those who self-reported symptoms, 73 per cent said they had experienced the effects of the virus for 12 weeks or more.