LONDON, April 29 — The United Kingdom’s Covid-19 death toll is probably higher than 27,241, making it one of the worst-hit countries in Europe, opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Wednesday as he questioned the government’s response to the outbreak. Prime Minister Boris...
Britain’s Labour Party leader Keir Starmer leaves his home in London, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, London, Britain, April 29, 2020. — Reuters pic
While the government’s chief scientific adviser said last month that keeping the death toll below 20,000 would be a"good outcome", the hospital toll passed that milestone last week. Starmer appears to have added the latest hospital death toll of 21,698 to the most recent English care home death toll of 4,343 and the non-hospital Covid-19 death tolls in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, standing in for the prime minister during questions in parliament, said it was"far too early" to make international comparisons.Other countries measure death numbers in different ways, he added.Starmer, after speaking to Johnson, said in a letter to the prime minister that mistakes had been made in the government’s response - including being too slow to impose a lockdown — and called for Johnson to publish an exit strategy.
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