These aged 35-49 had been most certainly to report signs at 5 weeks (25.6 p.c). (Representational)
London, United Kingdom: Practically one in seven Britons who examined optimistic for Covid-19 continued to have signs for no less than 12 weeks, in accordance with a UK examine launched Thursday.
The Workplace for Nationwide Statistics stated the examine of over 20,000 individuals who had examined optimistic from April final 12 months to March this 12 months discovered 13.7 p.c had signs that lasted for no less than 12 weeks.
This was based mostly on folks’s self-reported signs of so-called “lengthy Covid”. The listing of 13 signs included fatigue, muscle ache and problem concentrating in addition to lack of style and scent.
Girls had been extra extra doubtless (14.7 p.c) to report such long-lasting signs than males (12.7 p.c).
These aged 35-49 had been most certainly to report signs at 5 weeks (25.6 p.c).
The examine of UK sufferers was based mostly on a random pattern of 21,622 individuals who examined optimistic from swabs and had been requested about their signs month-to-month.
A management group who had been unlikely to have been contaminated was additionally arrange. It discovered they had been eight instances much less prone to have such signs.
A bigger survey of 1.1 million folks self-reported lengthy Covid over the 4 weeks ending March 6, 2021, the ONS stated.
Ben Humberstone, Head of Well being Evaluation and Life Occasions on the ONS stated this was its first evaluation of recent knowledge and “our understanding of it and its high quality will enhance over time”.
Lengthy Covid “is an rising phenomenon that’s not but totally understood”, he added.
Britain, one of many international locations worst hit by the pandemic, has recorded almost 127,000 deaths from Covid and 4,350,266 instances.
Nevertheless, the variety of every day deaths and optimistic assessments have fallen steadily amid a robust vaccination marketing campaign.
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