Ms Julia Corey:

Based on the number of cases that have been reported to date in Ireland, which is 3.5 million, we use the World Health Organization conservative estimate of 10% of all infections. That would mean there are 350,000 people in Ireland with it. This is likely an under count given there has been an absence of testing largely in the past year or so. HIQA did a review of international literature on long Covid last year. It estimated that internationally the prevalence ranged from 15.2% to 53.1% based on self-reported data. I note also we are involved in the steering committee on the HSE's FADA study on long Covid. We cannot share any results of that yet but that it is probably coming out this quarter. The aim of that was to get an understanding of the prevalence.