Coronavirus: Warning over daily death figures
On Monday, 439 coronavirus deaths were recorded in the UK - down from 621 on Sunday and 708 on Saturday.
Many hospitals will not report deaths that happened over the weekend until the middle of the following week.And these reveal that between 11 March and 1 April there were about 300 more deaths than previously thought during that period. Prof Jim Naismith, at the University of Oxford, said because of"understandable" delays in reporting by NHS trusts, the daily figures included deaths that may have happened up to two weeks ago.number of people dying with coronavirus is higherThe Office for National Statistics examined registrations and found deaths in the community not included in the daily hospital deaths figures.
Nevertheless, there are some early promising signs the virus's spread is slowing, as new confirmed cases fell from 4,450 to 3,802 between Friday and Monday.And this should feed through into a slowing in critical-care admissions and eventually deaths.LIVE UPDATES:
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