The average age of those who have died from coronavirus in England and Wales since the start of the pandemic is 82.4 years old.
Using data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), researchers at the University of Oxford found that the median age of a Covid-19 fatality was slightly higher than the median age of those who died of other causes over the same period, which was 81.5.
The researchers also found that about six in every 1,000 infections now result in death, down from about 30 in every 1,000 in June.
Experts at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford analysed ONS data on weekly deaths from Covid-19 from the start of this year to the end of September. These deaths are
