{"id":5517,"date":"2024-04-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:35:30","slug":"about-2m-people-have-long-covid-in-england-and-scotland-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/about-2m-people-have-long-covid-in-england-and-scotland-figures-show\/","title":{"rendered":"About 2m people have long Covid in England and Scotland, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2&nbsp;million people in England and Scotland say they are experiencing long Covid, figures reveal, with many reporting their symptoms have lasted two years or longer.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and cover the period from November 2023 to March 2024, revealing of those who reported having long Covid, about 1.5&nbsp;million people \u2013 about three-quarters\u2013 felt their day-to-day activities were affected, while 381,000 people \u2013 about a fifth \u2013 said their ability to undertake such activities had been \u201climited a lot\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2&nbsp;million people in England and Scotland say they are experiencing long Covid, figures reveal, with many reporting their symptoms have lasted two years or longer.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and cover the period from November 2023 to March 2024, revealing of those who reported having long Covid, about 1.5&nbsp;million people \u2013 about three-quarters\u2013 felt their day-to-day activities were affected, while 381,000 people \u2013 about a fifth \u2013 said their ability to undertake such activities had been \u201climited a lot\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/about-2m-people-have-long-covid-in-england-and-scotland-figures-show\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About 2m people have long Covid in England and Scotland, figures show<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,752,405,11,14,753,230,50],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-scotland","tag-statistics","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}