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New excess death data shows age groups most at risk of dying from coronavirus

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If you're older than 65, your chances of dying from coronavirus are astronomically higher than if you belong to any other age demographic, new figures show.

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shed new light on just how extreme the disparity in Covid-19 deaths is across age ranges.

There have now been 41,135 excess deaths in 2020 compared to the previous five-year average in the UK. At least 40,000 were related to coronavirus according to new reporting from today.

Of those deaths, 37,310 were older than 65 – by far the demographic most affected by coronavirus. Meanwhile those aged 75 and older make up 25,774 of these fatalities.

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