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'Nobody is safe yet' Matt Hancock reminds UK the Covid threat hasn't gone away

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Vincent
Date01 April 2021
Published date01 April 2021
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
He said the Government is investing more in tackling and understanding the condition.

He told Sky News: “We can see the impact in these new statistics shown today and I understand the impact it has had on hundreds of thousands of people.

“It’s one of the many damaging problems of this virus.

“We’re putting more research money into tackling and understanding long COVID because it appears to be several different syndromes.

“This is a very strange, very dangerous virus and it’s yet another reason for everybody to be cautious.

“Enjoy the sunshine, by all means, but nobody is safe from this virus until we can make everybody safe.”

An estimated 1.1 million people in private households in the UK reported experiencing “long COVID” in the four weeks to March 6, according to the ONS.

Of these people, an estimated 697,000 first had COVID-19 – or suspected they had COVID-19 – at least 12 weeks previously while 70,000 first had the virus or suspected they had the virus at least one year ago.

Long COVID was estimated to be...

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