75% of sufferers are affected day to day so its not just a cough for the majority its impacting peoples lives often very severely.
The UK source you link for this month says:
The proportion of people with self-reported long COVID who reported that it reduced their ability to carry out daily activities remained stable compared with previous months; symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 775,000 people (64% of those with self-reported long COVID), with 232,000 (19%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.
So, among people who self-report long covid, >80% say their day-to-day activities are not “limited a lot”. The dataset that comes with that page estimates the fraction of the UK population that would report such day-to-day-limiting long covid as 0.6%.
The UK source you link for this month says:
So, among people who self-report long covid, >80% say their day-to-day activities are not “limited a lot”. The dataset that comes with that page estimates the fraction of the UK population that would report such day-to-day-limiting long covid as 0.6%.