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Gonorrhoea has enjoyed a post-pandemic boom, with cases soaring to their highest ever level as sex starved Brits got frisky following the end of the Covid lockdowns, official figures show.

Official data today revealed that 82,592 people — including children as young as 13 — were diagnosed with the STI in England in 2022.

This marks the highest annual toll for ‘the clap’ since records began in 1918, 레비트라처방 the year WWI ended. 

The figure is also 16.1 per cent up 2019, before Covid struck and up 50.3 per cent on 2021’s total. STI testing was hugely reduced during the pandemic.

UK health authorities today also warned cases of the dangerous STI syphilis are also on the rise. 

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the sharp rise in STIs ‘strongly suggests’ there is more transmission, 정품 시알리스 although some of the increase is due to increased testing. 

UKHSA data shows STIs chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis have enjoyed a post Covid boom with diagnoses sharply rising in 2022. Syphilis diagnoses (purple line) have a separate Y-axis on the right compared to other STIs

Data suggests that overall Brits aged between 15 and 24-years-of-age were the most likely to test positive for an STI. Here gonorrhoea diagnoses broken down by age group are shown

Pandemic rules banned people from different households from mixing and forced bars and nightclubs to temporarily close. Health officials believe this was followed by a rise in people having condomless sex with new or casual partners. 

Diagnoses for the Victorian-era STI rose to their highest recorded level since 1948 last year, with 8,692 infections.

This was 15.2 per cent higher than in 2021, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) revealed.

Chlamydia cases also jumped by almost a quarter in a year, with 199,233 diagnoses logged.

Gonorrhoea rates were highest among 15-24 year olds, UKHSA data showed. Rates among this age group increased by 26.5 per cent in 2022.