Introduction

The 23rd of March 2020, the date Boris Johnson announced the UK's first lockdown. From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction. You must stay at home. As life for the majority of us has returned to normal, those early days of the pandemic can feel like a distant memory. But for the 2 million people in the UK who experienced self-reported long COVID symptoms, COVID-19 is still very present and for many it remains devastating. This is The Guardian.