VIRUS IN NUMBERS

£520 billion: the amount wiped off the FTSE 100 since February.

50 million: estimated death toll of Spanish flu (1918 to 1920).

£16,127: joke price on eBay of one roll of unbranded two-ply toilet paper.

103: age of the Chinese pensioner who became the oldest person to beat the virus.

11: number of cases linked to the ‘superspreader’ – the Brighton father-of-two who caught the virus in Singapore.