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The death toll from coronavirus in the UK could be 40% higher than reported, new shocking figures released today reveal.
New statistics show there were 13,121 deaths in England and Wales as of April 10, compared to 9,288 announced at the time.
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The difference is due to deaths that occurred outside the hospital, including nursing homes, hospices, and private homes, as well as delays in recording deaths.
According to statistics, 83.9% (8,673 deaths) occurred in the hospital, while 18% (1,662 deaths) were recorded outside.
Of the 1,622 deaths outside the hospital, 1,043 deaths were in nursing homes, 466 in private homes, 87 in hospices, 21 in other community facilities, and 45 elsewhere.
The total number of DOUBLED nursing home deaths was recorded in the four weeks following the first Covid-19 death in the UK.
In that week, just under 2,500 nursing home residents died from a variety of causes.
That increased by almost 100% per week through April 10 as greedy outbreaks gripped care homes.
Today’s key findings
- More people died in the UK in the week to April 10 than any other week since the records began
- A third of those deaths were due to the coronavirus.
- More than half of the deaths (53.2%) recorded in London were due to coronavirus
- West Midlands is also one of the hardest hit, with 37% of error-related deaths.
- Just over one in six coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes, private homes, and hospices.
- The total number of deaths in nursing homes doubled to 2,456 deaths in four weeks.
Care England just raised concerns last week that the number of deaths from coronavirus in nursing homes could reach 7,500.
And former pension minister Baroness Altmann criticized residents who had been “abandoned as lambs to the slaughterhouse” in the midst of the crisis.
Today Cllr Ian Hudspeth, president of the Community Welfare Board of the Local Government Association: “Today’s sad and shocking numbers highlight the great challenge we face in care homes and other community settings.
“Council social workers and care homes urgently need access to reliable and ongoing supplies of quality PPE, more rapid and comprehensive testing, and increased support with staff and other equipment, on an equal footing with the NHS.”
ONS statistics showed that a third of all deaths in the week up to April 10 were down to coronavirus, almost weeks after Boris Johnson put the UK under lock and key to stop the spread.
In London, more than half of all recorded deaths involved fatal error.
West Midlands also continued to emerge as a point of concern, with 37 percent of all coronavirus-related deaths in the region.
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It came as revealed today that ministers planned to adopt a “suck and watch” to slowly see what works to end coronavirus restrictions.
Rather than a clean end to the shutdown, top government figures last night prepared the nation to wait a long way through the summer and into the fall.
No10 officials now refer to what happens after the current three-week extension ending May 7 as “next phase.”
A “suck and see” plan is now being drawn up based on scientists’ data processing to see what constraints to try to ease first.
A high-ranking figure told The Sun: “We will try little by little and then we will pause to see what effect it has on transmission speed. The pace will be very gradual. “
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Yesterday it became known that Britain’s coronavirus strategy is now closer to that of France, which has a similar route of infection.
On Sunday night, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced that cafes and restaurants will be closed for months, and masks are likely to be mandatory on public transport.
Although he said that supermarkets may reopen next month, Phillipe added: “Our life from May 11 will not be like ours before, not immediately, and probably not for long.
“We will have to learn to live with the virus.”
Former Chancellor Philip Hammond warned last night that he expects Britain to experience a “U-shaped” Covid economic slowdown.
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And he urged ministers to explain to companies how they can ease the blockade to help the economy recover as best it can.
He said at a Chatham House webinar: “I think those who forecast a V-shaped recovery are probably erring on the side of optimism.”
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