A report, based on figures before Delta took hold, suggests one in seven infected children, aged 11 and over, still have symptoms 15 weeks on. “If you translate that to one in seven children suffering from long Covid, that’s 2,000 ­children developing persistent symptoms. It found kids’ long Covid was “nowhere near what people thought in the worst-case scenario” but the numbers were “not trivial”. Official figures suggest at least 30,000 have long Covid and parents have struggled to get help. In July, the Government announced 15 long Covid clinics would open for kids needing treatment.

Source: Daily Mirror September 04, 2021 20:27 UTC