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Many thousands suffering from long COVID, UK health minister says

Reuters
Updated ·1-min read
Britain's Health Secretary Hancock outside 10 Downing Street, in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Many thousands of people in Britain are suffering from "long COVID", ongoing illness after contracting the coronavirus, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday.

"We've already seen the serious impact that long COVID can have on people's quality of life, even the fit and the young, symptoms like fatigue and breathlessness, muscle pain and neurological problems, long after they first had the virus," Hancock told a media conference.

"And we know that long COVID affects thousands of people, many thousands of people," he added, saying England would have a network of 40 clinics to deal with long COVID by the end of the month.

(Reporting by William James and Michael Holden, editing by Estelle Shirbon)