"Figure 1: 2.0 million people were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 1 May 2022 ","" "Estimated number of people living in private households with self-reported long COVID of any duration, UK: four-week periods ending 2 May 2021 to 1 May 2022 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Estimates relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post COVID-19 syndrome. Study participants were asked to respond to the following question: ""Would you describe yourself as having 'long COVID', that is, you are still experiencing symptoms more than four weeks after you first had COVID-19, that are not explained by something else?"" 2. Estimates include people living in private households. They do not include those in communal establishments such as halls of residence, prisons, schools, hospitals, or care homes. 3. [Estimates for the four-week period 6 February to 6 March 2021](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/1april2021) are also available. " "Unit","Thousands" "","" "Period","Estimate","Lower 95% confidence limit","Upper 95% confidence limit" "04/04/2021 - 02/05/2021","1021","987","1054" "09/05/2021 - 06/06/2021","962","928","995" "06/06/2021 - 04/07/2021","945","911","979" "04/07/2021 - 01/08/2021","970","936","1003" "08/08/2021 - 05/09/2021","1086","1048","1124" "04/09/2021 - 02/10/2021","1202","1163","1241" "03/10/2021 - 31/10/2021","1209","1171","1247" "09/11/2021 - 06/12/2022","1266","1228","1304" "06/12/2021 - 02/01/2022","1332","1290","1373" "04/01/2022 - 31/01/2022","1528","1488","1569" "06/02/2022 - 05/03/2022","1724","1681","1767" "07/03/2022 - 03/04/2022","1795","1751","1839" "04/04/2022 - 01/05/2022","1988","1938","2038"