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Coronavirus: Death

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 31381, tabled on 12 July 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the covid-19 infection fatality rate.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

27 August 2021

As of 15 July, Public Health England’s modelling group, with the MRC Biostats Unit, estimated that overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%.

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