Long Covid: Children and Young People
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the prevalence of long covid in children and young people in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The most recent data from the Winter COVID-19 Infection Study, a joint study carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Health Security Agency, shows that, for the period 6 February 2024 to 7 March 2024, an estimated two million people, or 3.3% of the population, in private households in England and Scotland, self-reported experiencing long COVID symptoms more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. The following table shows a breakdown of this figure by age group:
Age group | Estimate |
Three to 17 years old | 111,816 |
18 to 34 years old | 406,538 |
35 to 44 years old | 294,099 |
45 to 54 years old | 397,802 |
55 to 64 years old | 389,977 |
65 to 74 years old | 271,374 |
75 years old and over | 113,467 |
While no estimate has been made specifically for Lancashire, the same dataset from the ONS estimated 270,939 people of all ages self-reporting experiencing long COVID symptoms in the North West of England region in that same time period.
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