Covid is now no more deadly than the flu in the UK, according to new figures.
The latest Office for National Statistics figures say more than 180,000 people have now died in the UK with Covid on their death certificate.
However, statistics show the rate of people dying with coronavirus has now dropped to flu levels or below, according to a report by the Telegraph.
In May 2020 the Case Fatality Rate (CRF) for Covid was 15% - one in six people who tested positive for the virus went on to die.
By the end of December last year that number had dropped to 0.3%.
The latest CRF for Covid for the week up to January 26 was 0.14%. The death rate for flu is between 0.1 and 0.2%.
The Telegraph reports: "It is likely now, that even with millions of Covid cases in December and January, excess winter mortality this year will not even approach a bad flu year - let alone the levels we have seen in previous waves."
Up to 30,000 people can die in the UK from flu in a bad year.
The Telegraph adds: "What is becoming increasingly clear is that, barring another nastier variant which can escape immunity and be intrinsically more deadly, Britain is largely out of the Covid woods."
The latest Scottish Government figures revealed that Scotland has recorded 8,310 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours.
On Wednesday the death toll under this measurement, of people who tested positive for the virus in the previous 28 days, was 10,341.
There were 1,116 people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, with 28 in intensive care.
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