New figures suggest Covid is now no more dangerous than flu in the UK, according to the Telegraph.
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, reports WalesOnline.
However, the Telegraph says that statistics show the rate of people dying with Covid has now dropped to flu levels or below.
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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."
