Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3 February 2021.
Baroness Masham of Ilton
Crossbench
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of children experiencing long-term effects of COVID-19.
Lord Bethell
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
On 21 January 2021, the Office for National Statistics published data which estimated that, in the week commencing 27 December 2020, there were 301,000 people in England, including children, who were showing post COVID-19 symptoms which had persisted for between five and 12 weeks.
The same data showed that 22.1% of all people testing positive for COVID-19 experienced symptoms for a period of five weeks or longer. For children aged between two and 11 years old, the proportion was lower at 12.9% and 14.5% amongst children aged between 12 and 16 years old.
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