Oct 23, 2020
The ONS said the biggest change in mortality rates had been in flu and pneumonia, which are far lower than the five-year average. Around 1,500 people would be usually expected to die of flu and pneumonia in September, but that has fallen to 1,132 – a drop of 27.7 per...
Oct 20, 2020
The ONS figures show that, since the week ending September 4, registered coronavirus deaths in England and Wales have been roughly doubling every fortnight. However, the country is now entering the winter flu season, and an increase in respiratory deaths is...
Oct 19, 2020
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Cambridge University, said: “Usually around 300 people die each day in their homes in England and Wales – the latest ONS analysis confirms that even after the peak of the...
Oct 9, 2020
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) were not due to Covid, new figures show. On Thursday, the ONS published data comparing Covid deaths in England and Wales to those from influenza and pneumonia up to the end of...
Oct 5, 2020
Prof Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, said their research had found that the effects of the virus lingered for a long time in significant numbers of people. Researchers from King’s College London and health-science...
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