THOUSANDS of Brits could be struck down with long Covid every day within the next six weeks, a minister has admitted. Kwasi Kwarteng said it’s “not beyond the imagination” that 5,…
He gave an interview on Sky a day after new Health Secretary Sajid Javid warned cases will soar over the summer.daily, he replied: "It's not beyond the imagination, but I think it's getting ahead of where we are."as Brits learn how to live with coronavirus."If we don't reopen fully on July 19, the implications of that would be simply just to delay all of this until perhaps September or the winter, when things would become more difficult.
"So, it's a balancing act. We have to decide what to do and I think this is the best course of action." The number of people testing positive for the deadly virus every day has reached levels last seen in January, the peak of the second waveChief Medical Officer Chris WhittyHe said: “Since there’s a lot of Covid at the moment and the rates are going up, I regret to say I think we will get a significant amount more long Covid, particularly in the younger ages where the vaccination rates are currently much lower.
"Fundamentally, the two ways to prevent long Covid in my view are to keep Covid rates right down and make sure everyone is vaccinated so they get very mild disease, and I think we really just need to push hell for leather for those two. "The deaths from Covid I think are mercifully going to be much lower in this wave compared to the previous ones as a proportion of cases but long Covid remains, I think, a worry.