Analysis: Coronavirus more than 7 times the flu

COVID-19 could kill one out of every 133 people that infects, suggesting that nearly six million people in the United Kingdom have already had the virus, according to scientists.

Researchers collected information from 13 global studies that tried to calculate the true death rate of the Coronavirus and established an overall score of 0.75 per cent, reports Dailymail.

It would put it about seven and a half times as deadly as the flu (0.1 percent), which kills thousands of people each year in Britain.

The number of data coming out of New York City last month suggested that a quarter of the city of eight million people were infected with the disease, namely 16,000 deaths were equal to a death rate of 0.79.

Official statistics are currently giving inflated death rates, including about 14 per cent in Britain because only seriously ill patients are tested, and scientists warn that the truth is difficult to know because of the lack of a widespread trial.

If the score of 0.75 percent, estimated by researchers in Australia, is true, this may mean that 5,796,400 in the United Kingdom are infected with coronary.

This is based on 43.473 people who have died, an assessment of the data backloged by the National Statistics Office, which was 42 per cent higher than the official number of government deaths (now 30.615) in its latest number.

Officially, 206,715 people in Britain have been diagnosed with COVID-19, but the true figure is known to be markedly higher because officials have done rationed testing.

The true death rate of the virus is unlikely to become clear until the pandemic is over and the countries can reveal how many people really infected and survived COVID-19.