Coronavirus: How long will it last? Who is at risk? How many people could die?

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England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has stressed that the "great majority" of people survive coronavirus , even among the elderly, as the government outlined details of its so-called battle plan to tackle the outbreak.

Professor Whitty said that "up to 80 per cent of Britons" could catch coronavirus in a worst-case scenario, but in reality the number was likely to be "probably a lot lower than that".

The peak of the infection could be "two to three months", he said. And then it would take "a further two to three months for the virus to decline", he added.

So far, 51 people in the UK have tested positive for coronavirus, which has led to more than 93,000 infections worldwide and more than 3,000 deaths. "Even for the