One in 20 people unemployed and not seeking work have symptoms, says ONS

One in 20 people in the UK who are neither employed or seeking paid work are suffering from long Covid, with the figure more than doubling in the past year, official data has revealed.

The proportion is far higher than for the one in 29 people who are unemployed but seeking work who have long Covid symptoms, or the one in 30 employed people who are sufferers, data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows.

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