Filenews 6 January 2021
Around 3,000 deaths in England and Wales in the week to 25 December were linked to the coronavirus, according to newer figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
These are cases in which COVID-19 is listed as the main or contributed cause of death on the certificates, without specifying the time of death after a positive diagnosis or even whether a diagnostic test had been carried out on the deceased.
On the basis of this count and if one adds the corresponding data from the Scottish and Northern Ireland statistical services, as well as the subsequent (until 5 January) deaths announced by the Ministry of Health, then the total number of pandemic deaths in the UK. Kingdom is estimated at 92,070.
This figure is much higher than the official government record of 76,305 deaths so far yesterday, as the Department of Health only counts deaths of confirmed carriers of the virus that ended up within 28 days of a positive diagnosis.
In the week before Christmas, based on the same data from the ONS, one in four deaths in England and Wales was due to the coronavirus, the highest proportion since mid-May.
At the same time, 26,626 Covid patients were being treated in hospitals in England on Monday, a figure 40% higher than the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.
In London, hospitalised bodies were 6,733, a figure 29% higher than the worst day in April.
Source:eyenews/CYPE
