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Mental health crisis laid bare as ONS data reveal proportion of women battling depression has risen to almost double pre-pandemic levels

Share This Over the past year, much has been written on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and adults.  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been working to monitor the effect of the last year’s events on people’s personal well-being and mental health. Two new pieces of analysis have been published today, providing early insights into self-reported depression in adults during the early 2021 lockdown, and experimental analysis of the number of depression diagnoses by GPs during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020. Here the authors Tim Viz...

Covid vaccine hesitancy among black British adults halves in a month Campaign to counter disinformation about safety and effectiveness of jabs appears to be working, with just over a fifth reporting concerns 1 April 2021 • 3:53pm Vaccine hesitancy among black British adults has halved in around a month, according to official figures. Just over a fifth – 22 per cent – reported concerns over having the jab in the four weeks to mid-March, down from 44 per cent in the previous month, the Office for National Statistics found. The progress in black African and Caribbean communities comes amid...

A person walks past empty offices in London. Among 20,000 people who tested positive for Covid, 13.7% had symptoms for at least 12 weeks. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images More than a million people in the UK were experiencing “long Covid” in a recent four-week period, according to new survey figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Statisticians estimate that 1.1 million people in the community had ongoing symptoms in the four weeks up to 6 March after contracting the disease at least three months beforehand. Long Covi...

Coronavirus vaccine hesitancy has halved among black Britons following No10's PR blitz to quash fears, data revealed today. Ministers launched a media campaign to address hesitancy in BAME communities back in February, after experts raised concerns about low uptake in ethnic minorities. The Department of Health worked with more than 50 ethnic minority TV channels and radio stations that broadcast in 13 different languages to tackle anti-vaxx misinformation. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today suggested the PR campaign already appears to be working, even in the face of EU...