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Long Covid likely contributed to record number leaving labour market
LONG Covid is likely to have contributed to the record number of people leaving the labour market in Britain, new analysis suggests.
In the year to July, more than 200,000 people left the workforce because they had the condition, according to an Office for National Statistics (ONS) study.
The analysis identifies for the first time a link between long Covid and the recent workforce exodus, which has seen 600,000 workers go “missing” from the job market since early 2020.
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