The government has been accused of ‘shamelessly abandoning’ global comparisons of coronavirus death tolls
At today’s Covid-19 briefing, all the usual data was presented except for a chart showing how the number of people who have died in Britain compares with other nations. Yesterday, the chart was also missing fromBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma confirmed that 32,692 people have now died according to official figures – but today the Office For National Statistics suggested that the true figure was actually above 40,000.
Other experts have estimated that the real figure is in fact likely to be nearer 60,000 – but there is also widespread caution about comparing figures across countries, which may record them differently.Daily Mirror political journalist Kevin Maguire tweeted: ‘No 10 shamelessly abandoning publication of a daily global death comparisons is because dangerous incompetent Boris Johnson’s presided over Europe’s highest death count and the world’s second behind the USA.
‘As we made clear in the slides, it difficult to compare statistics across countries. Countries report deaths in different ways so it is not possible to make like-for-like comparisons. ‘Numerous experts have said that reliable international comparisons won’t be possible until further along in the pandemic.’The government is no longer producing the international comparison chart because theyâre rightfully ashamed that we have the second highest death toll in the world.
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