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The coronavirus pandemic has caused up to 41,000 deaths in the UK so far, according to an analysis of current statistics from the Financial Times.
The estimate is based on figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday, which said the death toll in the UK could be 41% higher than originally reported due to deaths outside hospitals.
The official UK total is currently 17,337, according to the Department of Health which publishes a daily update. Yesterday the total increased by 873.
But those figures don’t take into account deaths in nursing homes or in the community.
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The government is feared to be underestimating the actual figure by failing to include non-hospital deaths in its daily updates.
With the death toll still so high, there are no signs that the UK shutdown will end soon and it is currently expected to continue until at least the beginning of May.
Sir Keir is likely to spend his first PMQs as a Labor leader questioning the replacement tests of Boris Johnson, the front-line worker protection team and an exit strategy from the shutdown.
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An RAF aircraft landed in Brize Norton from Turkey in the early hours of today, after being sent to pick up a shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE), which includes much-needed surgical gowns.
The government is likely to face further questions about its involvement in an EU scheme to secure vital equipment after Foreign Ministry chief official Sir Simon McDonald made an extraordinary U-turn by withdrawing his own claim that the United Kingdom did not participate because of a “political decision”.
Sir Simon wrote to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee to say that his previous evidence had been “incorrect” and returned to the Government’s defense that the plan was not initially joined due to a “communication problem”.
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in the meantime Tony Blair has said “you can’t stop making decisions” as Prime Minister Boris Johnson recovers from coronavirus symptoms.
The former prime minister said Johnson, who received intensive care treatment and is believed to have not fully returned to work, “needs to improve” and will be consulted on important decisions regarding the government’s response to the pandemic.
Blair also told Good Morning Britain: “I think in a situation where every day is important and where decisions must be made every day, I think the person who is the acting Prime Minister along with what is essentially the war cabinet: the four main ministers who meet, that person must make those decisions.
“You can’t override decision making.”
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