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Overweight women are more likely to experience symptoms of long <keyword id="8764262" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">Covid</keyword>, according to a new research. The study from the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that having a higher <keyword id="577165" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="body-mass" source="Orion">Body Mass</keyword> Index (BMI) is linked with the condition, and that women are more likely to experience long Covid than men. It is one of the largest studies on long Covid in the UK, the study said. The research, published in PLOS Global Public Health, also shows that people with long Covid were much more likely to need additional, and often lasting, care at the National Health System (NHS) than those who make a swift recovery. "Long Covid is a complex condition that develops during or after having Covid, and it is classified as such when symptoms continue for more than 12 weeks," said Professor <keyword id="15668264" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="vassilios-vassiliou" source="Orion">Vassilios Vassiliou</keyword>, from UEA's Norwich Medical School. "Just over two million people in the UK are thought to suffer with long Covid and it affects people in different ways. Breathlessness, a cough, heart palpitations, headaches, and severe fatigue are among the most prevalent symptoms," said <keyword id="5359211" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="vassiliou" source="Orion">Vassiliou</keyword>. "Other symptoms may include chest pain or tightness, brain fog, insomnia, dizziness, joint pain, depression and anxiety, tinnitus, loss of appetite, headaches, and changes to sense of smell or taste," said Vassiliou. "We wanted to find out what factors might make people more or less susceptible to developing long Covid," said Vassiliou. The research team surveyed patients in Norfolk, UK, who had received a positive Covid PCR test result in 2020. A total of 1,487 people took part in an online survey which covered long-Covid symptoms such as breathlessness, chest pain, fatigue, memory problems, and anxiety. They found that more than half of the participants (774) were experiencing at least one long Covid symptom, showing a high self-reported prevalence. Next, they looked to see what factors might make people more or less likely to suffer the condition by looking at the participants' medical records. Factors including BMI, sex, medication use, other health conditions, and whether they lived in a deprived area were taken into account. "We show that more than a half of the survey respondents who tested positive for Covid in the East of England during the first year of the pandemic went on to report long Covid symptoms," said Vassiliou. "All of these people were infected in the months before the Covid vaccination programme was rolled out and they suffered from numerous new symptoms that were not present before their Covid infection," said Vassiliou. "Interestingly, we found that more women than men had long Covid symptoms. We also found that having a higher BMI was linked with long Covid." "This is really important because information like this can be used to profile those people who are 'at risk' of developing long Covid," said Vassiliou. "We also found that people with long Covid were over three times more likely to use healthcare services than those who didn't display long Covid symptoms," said Vassiliou. "We hope that our work will help policymakers plan local services and also inform the wider public of the scale of the long Covid pandemic," said Vassiliou. "When COVID-19 struck it was new to everyone. All clinicians and the wider health and care system worked extremely hard together to deal with the impacts of the virus and protect our people and communities," said Dr. <keyword id="15668263" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="mark-lim" source="Orion">Mark Lim</keyword>, interim service director of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/indias-mfg-pmi-hits-3-month-high-in-nov-amid-expansion-in-production-slowdown-in-inflation-sp/articleshow/95905921.cms">India's mfg PMI hits 3-month high in Nov amid expansion in production, slowdown in inflation: S&amp;P</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/wipro-infrastructure-engineering-acquires-pune-based-linecraft-ai-for-an-undisclosed-sum/articleshow/95905792.cms">Wipro Infrastructure Engineering acquires Pune-based Linecraft.ai for an undisclosed sum</a>

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Being vaccinated against <keyword id="8764262" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">Covid</keyword> halves people's risk of developing long Covid, according to new research conducted on more than 860,000 patients. The findings showed that overweight people, women, smokers and those over the age of 40 are also more likely to suffer from long Covid. In addition, people with comorbidities such as asthma, COPD, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, immunosuppression, anxiety and depression are also associated with increased risk of long Covid. And patients who are hospitalised during their acute Covid infection are also more likely to experience long Covid. "Conversely, it was reassuring to see that people who had been vaccinated had significantly less risk - almost half the risk - of developing long Covid compared to unvaccinated participants," said Prof Vassilios <keyword id="5359211" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="vassiliou" source="Orion">Vassiliou</keyword>, from the <keyword id="107768" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="university-of-east-anglia" source="Orion">University of East Anglia</keyword>. The findings, published in the journal JAMA <keyword id="329004" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="internal-medicine" source="Orion">Internal Medicine</keyword>, are based on data from 41 studies around the world, involving a total of 860,783 patients. "Long Covid is a complex condition that develops during or after having Covid, and it is classified as such when symptoms continue for more than 12 weeks," Vassiliou said. "Long Covid affects people in different ways. Breathlessness, a cough, heart palpitations, headaches, and severe fatigue are among the most prevalent symptoms. "Other symptoms may include chest pain or tightness, brain fog, insomnia, dizziness, joint pain, depression and anxiety, tinnitus, loss of appetite, headaches, and changes to sense of smell or taste," Vassiliou said. The study will help define the full demographic characteristics and the risk factors for developing long Covid. Furthermore, the findings will help authorities develop a better strategy for optimising any modifiable risk factors, with public health promotion campaigns, encouraging smoking cessation, <keyword id="54639" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vaccination" source="Orion">vaccination</keyword> and healthy weight management in the target population, the researchers said. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/back-to-the-moon-space-lawyer-planetary-scientist-tells-us-what-it-takes-to-share-the-benefits-of-lunar-exploration/articleshow/98962098.cms">Back to the Moon: Space lawyer &amp; planetary scientist tells us what it takes to share the benefits of lunar exploration</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/heres-how-to-use-bings-free-image-creator-to-generate-ai-images-for-free/articleshow/98962062.cms">Here’s how to use Bing’s free Image Creator to generate AI images for free</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will allow around 3 million <keyword id="24349" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hong-Kong">Hong Kong</keyword> residents to live and work in the UK</li><li>Under the scheme, Hong Kong citizens with British visa rights will be allowed to apply for a five year visa before becoming eligible for full British citizenship.</li><li>The move came after Beijing introduced a controversial security law in Hong Kong which has already seen hundreds of protesters arrested.</li><li>Here are the full details on how the visa application system for Hong Kong residents might look and what we know so far.</li></ul>Boris Johnson has confirmed that the UK will allow around 3 million Hong Kong residents to apply for residency in the UK.The move comes after China passed a controversial national security law in Hong Kong which critics say allow Beijing to clamp down on freedoms on the semi-autonomous island.Speaking on Wednesday, the UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab, who called the national security law a "<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-07-01/debates/7A4917D6-E522-4589-8649-B9537A1051EA/HongKongNationalSecurityLegislation">grave and deeply disturbing step</a>," set out details of the UK's residency offer to millions of Hong Kong citizens.<h2>Which Hong Kong residents will be able to apply for a British visa?</h2>The new immigration offer will allow a group of Hong Kongers called British National (Overseas) Citizens (BNOs) to apply for UK residency. Dominic Raab <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-07-01/debates/7A4917D6-E522-4589-8649-B9537A1051EA/HongKongNationalSecurityLegislation">said</a> there are about 3 million eligible BNOs, 300,000 of whom already hold British passports.Applicants will be able to apply for a five-year visa, which allows them to live, work and study in the UK. At the end of those five years, those people will be able to apply in the UK for indefinite leave to remain in the UK, and one year after that they will be able to apply for British citizenship.<h2>How much will a visa application cost?</h2>Dominic Raab <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-07-01/debates/7A4917D6-E522-4589-8649-B9537A1051EA/HongKongNationalSecurityLegislation">said on Wednesday</a> that Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, would set out further details of the immigration scheme "in due course," so it remains unclear exactly what immigration route will be available to BNOs.John Vassiliou, a lawyer specialising in immigration and nationality at law firm McGill &amp; Co, said on the <a href="https://www.freemovement.org.uk/bno-visa-hong-kong-dominic-raab/">Free Movement website</a> that he believed the visa route would be similar to the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/ancestry-visa">UK Ancestry visa</a>.If the visa route for British Overseas Nationals in Hong Kong did mirror the UK Ancestry visa, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/ancestry-visa">it would cost £516</a> (4,990 Hong Kong dollars) and requires people to submit applications 3 months before they <keyword id="6354692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Travel">travel</keyword> at the earliest.<h2>Will Hong Kong residents have to pay the NHS surcharge?</h2>While the UK Ancestry visa is significantly cheaper than many others, it also requires applicants to pay the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application">health surcharge</a>, an annual fee levied on many visa applications which permits people to access NHS services.In all likelihood, Hong Kong residents will have to pay this charge, which currently applies to all visa applicants from outside the European Economic Area.The health surcharge will cost £624 a year for adults from October 2020, which would amount to a total of £3120 over the initial five-year period for which eligible Hong Kong citizens able to apply for residency. Rates are discounted for children.However, the annual health surcharge has risen steeply in recent years. It was £200 in 2018, before rising to the current £400 <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7274/">before it rises again later this year</a>, meaning fees could have risen further if Hong Kong residents apply in future years.At current rates, Vassiliou said, a family of four applying to come to the UK could expect to pay — up front — £10,940 on the health surcharge, as well as £2,064 on visa fees.<h2>How much would indefinite leave to remain cost?</h2>Applying for indefinite leave to remain — which Hong Kong residents would be eligible to apply for after five years — <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-regulations-revised-table/home-office-immigration-and-nationality-fees-6-april-2020">costs a further £2,389 per person</a>.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Luke MacGregor </div></div>Six years ago, only a few months before Northern Rock collapsed and the world plunged into a financial storm from which it still has not properly recovered, I met Alex Rossiter, a 29-year-old freelance radio producer, in the basement kitchen of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/may/13/houseprices.business" title="">his parents' house in Hackney, east London</a>.
His father, Alan, a community arts worker, told me how he had bought the house for £9,300 in 1977 and that now "it's probably worth £500,000, if you can believe that". Actually, I told him, it's probably more like £800,000. At which point, he nearly fell off his chair.
But then this was May 2007, and I'd spent a fortnight tramping up and down his road, knocking on doors, asking strangers intrusive questions about their personal lives. I was trying to build up a snapshot of how Britain's super-inflated <keyword id="35061" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="housing">housing</keyword> market had affected the people in a single, randomly chosen <keyword id="6354968" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="London">London</keyword> street.
At that moment, house price inflation seemed deranged, unstoppable; headline after headline documented the rising prices; nationally, values were up 10% year on year. In London, a single house viewing could draw 200 people and result in 10 sealed bids at the end of the day. And everyone I spoke to, both the winners and losers in the great British property lottery, wondered: how could it go on? Where would it end? Where was the money coming from? We know the answer to that now, of course. Global economic meltdown and the biggest collapse in house prices in two decades.
Six years on, though, in London at least, but by no means all over the country, the headlines have returned. London asking prices increased by 10% in a single month, <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/21/uk-britain-property-idUKBRE99K0C220131021" title="">according to Rightmove</a>. Which means, as one commenter put it, that every minute the average London home is increasing in value by "the price of a Subway sandwich". And this could be just the start. The government's Help to Buy scheme, attacked by everyone from the IMF to former Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King, is widely expected to pour political booster fuel into an already hyped-up market just in time for the next election.
That 2007 mood? It's back. And so is what Anne Currell, the co-owner of Currell's estate agency, a mini-chain, based in north and east London, and who happens to live on the street I picked, calls "the slightly unreal feeling of it all".
The street was Albion Drive in E8, and I chose it randomly - an inner-London everystreet made up of family homes and 60s in-fill, Georgian detacheds and a council estate. But the super-gentrification that has benefited Hackney has meant that it turned out to be a more exceptional case than other streets in other boroughs.
Albion Drive is hop, a skip and a jump from what has become London's Silicon Roundabout technology district; another hop, skip and a jump from London's new nightlife central, Dalston, both of which have emerged in the six years since I wrote the original article.
It turned out to be an extreme case: a hyperbolic exaggeration of a London street, where some have made millions and some struggle to cover the rent. But in this, it is perhaps a bellwether. Even six years ago, there was a staggering wealth gap between those with property and those without; in Albion Drive, it's now an unbridgeable chasm. This is the rest of Britain, potentially, a few more years down the line.
Have prices really gone crazy again, I ask Currell, or is it just media exaggeration? She sighs and repeats what she said earlier. "There's just this slightly unreal feel to what's going on. Even for an estate agent, it's not hugely pleasurable.
"You think it's easy, but actually when you put a house on the market and there are four or five people who want to buy the same house, that's not particularly satisfying. And how sustainable it is, I don't know. But the fact remains there are not enough properties being built in London."
In 2007, it didn't seem possible that prices could keep on rising. And yet, despite the crash, she estimates that prices in the street are 65% higher than they were at the so-called "height" of the boom.
She bought her house for £170,000 in 1986 and in 2007 told me that it was probably worth £1.2m. "Did I say that? Well we're just having some work done on it, and when it's finished I think it'll be worth around £2.4m-£2.5m, so that's actually a 100% rise. But it's a very specific product."
By which I think she means that it's what non-specialists might call a bloody nice house: double-fronted with a massive garden. In 2007, it seemed impossible that prices could continue going up because, in the absence of wage increases, how would first-time buyers be able to borrow any more? The answer is that, in the past six years, first-time buyers have changed: "There's always two of them now. It's two people buying a one-bed flat together. That's around £350,000 and at least one of them, if not both, will be getting help from parents."
And then there's the overseas market. "That's the other change: 70% of all London newbuilds are sold to foreign buyers, which we play a small part in." There's a perception <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/20/london-new-york-times-foreign-rich-property" title="">that this affects only prime central London</a>, but she says: "Even we have a China desk now."
Six years ago, <a href="http://gu.com/p/xj65k" title="http://gu.com/p/xj65k">I'd found every sort of person and every sort of housing story in Albion Drive</a>. People like George Vassiliou, who bought his council house with Right to Buy a decade earlier for £39,000 and had just sold up for £565,000; first-time buyers like Dan Massie, 25, a town planner who'd managed to buy a one-bed flat for £265,000 with his girlfriend because of "massive help" from their parents; young renters such as Jodie Banaszkiewicz who, with two friends, was paying nearly £1,500 a month to rent an ex-council flat on an estate at the end of the road; and academics like Rosemary Stott, who had seen her house treble in value in a decade. She was a film lecturer who told me she taught a course on film in the hyper-inflationary Weimar Republic "and frankly, this feels quite similar".
Six years on, the winners have just won more; the losers are just ever further away from being able to afford their own homes. Alan Rossiter says "it's absolutely nuts" when I talk to him about the price of his home now, but he doesn't have quite the same sense of shock and awe that he had back then. Even when I point out that a similar-sized home to his recently sold for £1.25m. "I know it's just crazy. But we love living here. It's a house to us. It's our home not an asset."
In 2007, his son, Alex, said, frustrated: "I don't think I'll ever be able to buy." Six years on, the frustration has been replaced by an air of quiet resignation. He's 36 now and a press officer for the TUC. He rents a flat with two friends in north London.
"I'm in the same position as a lot of people. I've got a professional good job, and earn a decent salary, but unless you have considerable savings, actually buying somewhere is an incredibly distant prospect," he says.
"I've almost reconciled myself to not buying any time soon. I'm 36 and I don't think it's going to happen by the time I'm 40. But there are people in a lot worse situations than me. I'm lucky, I enjoy my job, I'm happy, and I live in a nice part of London. I have a decent quality of life.
"But I'd always assumed that I would have my own place, that I would have children. You review that as you get older."
Some of his friends, mostly those who have had parental help, have managed to buy. "And I don't resent them for that at all. But there is an asset gap that's opening up between those who have and haven't managed to buy. I don't think there's resentment about it. I just think that people want to settle down and maybe have a family and that's become incredibly difficult. It's hard to plan a future in short-term rented accommodation."
That rising house prices take money from the young - and as Martin Weale, the director of the National Institute of Social and Economic Research said last time, "the not yet born" - and gift it to the old has, at least, become a mainstream school of thought since I wrote the piece in 2007. The issue of intergenerational fairness is now on the political agenda, even if nothing has been done to address it - although Jonathan Portes, the institute's new director, tells me that he believes it's somewhat overstated.
"My sympathy for young graduates whose parents own a house is somewhat limited. Old people die, and you can't take it with you. It's young people who haven't been to university, who haven't got the qualifications, and who, if they live outside of London, won't be able to afford to move to London. It's people who aren't going to inherit. And that's why rising house prices are inequitable and regressive, and socially, in all sorts of ways, a bad thing."
He's right: Alex might inherit, some day, though it's not much use to him now. The children of the council and housing association tenants in the street will never have even that distant hope. And the vast wealth gap opening up between London and the south-east and the rest of Britain means that it's not just social inequalities that are being widened - by the price of a Subway sandwich a minute - but also geographical ones.
Homeowners in London can, at some point, exercise the option of moving to a cheaper part of the country and reducing their mortgage, or using their equity as a pension or as start-up capital for an artisanal bakery, or whatever. If you live in a cheaper part of the country, tough. There are jobs in London, and many young people aspire to live there, but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/23/midlands-students-work-london-rent-costs" title="">as a bunch of students from the Midlands told the Guardian</a> last week, the idea of paying the capital's extortionate rents is simply "scary".
If you have a decent job, you can at least afford the extortionate rents. At the end of the road, I meet Dan (not his real name) who's 38. He rents a flat with his girlfriend in one of the council blocks and they're stuck in a flat-baby dilemma. "We can afford to buy something, somewhere using both our salaries, but we want to have a baby, so …," and he shrugs his shoulders.
"I'm old enough to remember the last crash and I always thought there had to be one and it couldn't carry on. But then the government pumped loads of money into the banks, and propped it up and now it's worse than ever."
Dan's friends who bought "are loaded, basically", he says. "That single fact is going to affect the rest of our lives. They will always be rich and have options; I will probably be quite poor, with a massive mortgage, and won't.
"And to be honest, it's the ones who started off rich - whose parents could afford to give them money - who are now in nice houses and all the rest, and the ones whose didn't, aren't. It's got less to do with how successful they've been professionally, than with the fact that they had help with a deposit at 25."
He's still one of the lucky ones, though. A report last week gave the staggering statistic that two in five private renters in London are living below the poverty line.
But then, the whole paradigm of home ownership has changed in the capital. "London is now a minority home-owning city," says Toby Lloyd, an analyst with Shelter. "And levels are falling fast. More and more people are in unstable, insecure tenancies." And while London is "particularly acute", he says, "house prices are higher now than in 2007 in every region of the country. There are really bad hotspots all over the country. We looked at asking prices compared with average wages all over the country, and only 2% of properties were available for those on an average wage."
Is it a short-term bubble? Neal Hudson, a housing analyst for Savills, refers to the "potential for irrational exuberance" but also says his company is about to revise its five-year forecast of house price inflation (18% in the UK, 25% in London) upwards. He adds: "There's one particular piece of data that has started to worry me. The loan-to-income ratio for first time buyers is higher than it was in 2007. They're borrowing even more than they were then."
The story of Albion Drive was a snapshot in 2007. In 2013, it feels more like a prophecy. A decade ago, the wealth gap between its home owners and council tenants and private renters, between its older residents and younger residents, was pronounced but not insurmountable. Now it is.
I chat to Robin Murray, an economist living in Albion Drive, whose specialist subject is co-operatives. He calls home ownership "the absolute plank" of inequality.
Six years ago, he told me that house price inflation had a parallel in the great political struggle of the 19th century over the price of land - how parliament was composed of landowners who introduced legislation such as the Corn Laws for their own benefit. I tell him how that stayed with me. And he's kind enough to say that what I wrote has stayed with him too: that Britain is now two classes: the landed, and the landless. Private renters, council tenants, those who don't have parents to bequeath them a house: they are the new peasant farmers, locked at the bottom of society with no escape ladder to climb.
Neo-serfs, I called them then. The name didn't stick, obviously. But, who knows: maybe its time will yet come. Read the piece. I never say that. But six years on, it feels just a bit uncanny.

This article originally appeared on <a>guardian.co.uk</a>

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