Healthy under-50s are more likely to die from a car accident or an injury than Covid-19, leading statistician says

Britons under the age of 50 are more likely to die from an accident or injury than the coronavirus, according to one of the UK’s leading experts.

Cambridge University statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter said there had been 959 Covid-19 deaths out of 18million people in that age range in England and Wales so far.

But more than 80 per cent of these victims had pre-existing health conditions that make the viral disease far more deadly than it otherwise would be.

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