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Ana Valdes, Professor of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Nottingham

Gut bacteria could help protect against COVID and even lead to a new drug – new research

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The number of people who have died with or from COVID has varied greatly around the world. Peru, the world’s worst affected country, has had 6,067 COVID deaths for every million inhabitants and 88,345 recorded cases per million people. Roughly one in every 15 people who has caught COVID in Peru has died.

At the other end of the spectrum there’s New Zealand. It’s had only 10 deaths and 3,136 cases for every million people, meaning only one in every 313 COVID cases in New Zealand ended with the person dying.

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