More than 30,000 UK children are battling Long Covid with experts fearing push to vaccinate young has come too late
It comes as experts criticised the government's "unnecessary delay” in the rollout of vaccines toAround 34,000 children have long Covid symptoms, ONS figures suggestThe most recent Office of National Statistics figures show 34,000 youngsters under 16 years old with longAltogether, there were 11,000 two to 11-year-olds and 23,000 12- to 16-year-olds said to be affected with symptoms.
There were an estimated 945,000 people in total across all age groups who reported lingering Covid symptoms.Study participants were asked: "Would you describe yourself as having 'long COVID', that is, you are still experiencing symptoms more than 4 weeks after you first had COVID-19, that are not explained by something else?"
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