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Coronavirus cases falling - but people suffering long Covid at almost 2 MILLION

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Coronavirus infection rates have fallen in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. Salford now has the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, replacing Stockport.

Hospital admissions and deaths have also fallen in the region. However, other impacts of Covid-19 are now being felt on a mass scale, reports the Office of National Statistics in new data.

An estimated 1.8 million people - translating to 2.8 per cent of the population - had reported experiencing long Covid symptoms as of July 2, 2022.

Of those, 81 per cent reported experiencing long Covid symptoms at least 12 weeks after first having suspected coronavirus and 43 per cent at least one year after. READ MORE:Patient waits 'six hours' in ambulance as '100 people fit for discharge stuck in hospital beds' during paramedic's 'worst shift ever' Symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.3 million people (72 per cent) of those with self-reported long Covid.

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