The new figures bring the total number of excess deaths since the coronavirus outbreak began to just over 65,000
Wales did however record 44 more deaths than the five-year average.
Given"excess deaths" as they are called have been perhaps the most important, and most depressing, of all the statistics over the course of this pandemic, the fact that at last Britain is not recording any excess deaths is a major watershed moment. This wave of mortality - almost certainly the worst since the Spanish influenza a century ago - is now over.
The drop into below-average mortality is largely down to a sudden fall in the number of deaths registered in England and Wales. In the week ending 12 June, 559 more deaths happened in England and Wales than happened in that week in previous years - but in the following week, the week ending 19 June, total deaths were 65 below the historical average - a bigger drop than many anticipated.
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