11 things more likely than an AZ blood clot

WITH more than 20 million Britons receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine so far, there have been 79 cases of rare blood clots – and 19 deaths – linked to the jab.

The figures are equivalent to one in every 250,000 of those vaccinated suffering from a clot – and one in a million dying.

To put that one-in-a-million chance into proper perspective, here is how the risk of a deadly blood clot compares with some other things that don’t happen very often...

You are seven times more likely to pick five winning numbers in the National Lottery – the odds of that happening are one in 144,415;

Women are almost 15,000 times more likely to give birth to twins (one in 67) or 223 times more likely to have triplets (one in 4,478); Your chances of having a Leap Year birthday on February 29 are 685 times greater (one in 1,461);

The likelihood of an amateur player scoring a hole-in-one during a round of golf is more than 83 times greater (one in 12,000);

Guessing a four-digit PIN code on the first attempt is 100 times more likely to happen (roughly one in 10,000);

The average person is almost 15 times more likely to die after being stung by a bee (one in 67,190); Poker players have a 32 times better chance of scoring a royal flush (one in 30,940);

The odds of dying in a car crash are 2,899 higher (one in 345);

Someone playing ten-pin bowling is 87 times more likely to score a strike with every ball during a game (one in 11,500);

The chances of being struck by lightning are roughly the same (one in 1,113,333);

You are 100 times more likely to find a four- leaf clover ( one in 10,000).