There are three ‘clear’ factors that increase your risk of coronavirus, Professor Chris Whitty has warned. The chief medical officer answered questions on the coronavirus pandemic in the UK at a press briefing yesterday.
While he revealed that three key factors appear to increase your risk of catching the virus, he admitted that it remains unclear why ethnic minority groups appear to be more at risk. "It's absolutely critical that we find out which groups are most at risk so we can help protect them," he told the briefing. "There are three things which are really clear - and ethnicity is less clear.” Underlying health conditions According to Professor Whitty, 90% of people who have died from coronavirus in the UK had at least one other