Britain’s true toll is likely to be closer to Spain or even Italy, Europe’s worst-affected countries.
Britain is on track to record one of the worst coronavirus death tolls in Europe, after data published on Tuesday showed nationwide fatalities topped 24,000 nine days ago.
“The United Kingdom is going to be right up there among the worst-hit nations in the initial surge,” said Bill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday that daily figures for deaths in the community would be published from Wednesday.
The figures underline the scale of the challenge facing Johnson as he returns to work after recovering from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and the dangers of relaxing Britain’s lockdown too soon. Scotland last week reported 1,616 deaths that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate as of April 19. Northern Ireland posted 276 as of April 17. Another 1,016 had died in Wales.
The latest daily figures released by Britain’s health ministry for Covid-19 deaths in hospitals hit 21,678 on Tuesday, a rise of 586.
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