It’s no worse than normal fluIt is wrong to think the virus is no more dangerous than seasonal flu. Covid-19 is more deadly than the flu, which kills about 0.1% of those infected while ­coronavirus deaths are closer to 2%. It also seems to spread more easily than seasonal flu. Each person infected appears to infect 2.2 people on average but for seasonal flu the number is 1.3. And while there is a vaccine which is quite successful in preventing seasonal flu, no vaccine yet exists for Covid-19.

Source: Daily Mirror March 16, 2020 22:11 UTC