LONDON — The British government says 759 more people with the coronavirus have died in U.K. hospitals, taking the total to 18,100.
The daily increase reported was lower than the 823 in the previous 24-hour period.
The U.K.’s death toll is the fourth highest in Europe, behind Italy, Spain and France, all of whom have reported more than 20,000 deaths.
However, there has been increasing scrutiny of the U.K. figures in recent days for understating the actual number of people having died of COVID-19. The numbers don’t include those who have died in care homes or elsewhere in the community.
Earlier, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the country was at the “peak” but that it was too early to start considering a relaxation of the lockdown measures in place since March 23.
Under current trajectories by mid-May the U.S will have 1/2 the world’s total confirmed infections, and mortalities exceeding the immediate 6 nations combined behind us in the count. Widespread lifting of mitigation measures will further aggravate that.
Wasn’t Boris Johnson an advocate of “herd immunity”? He is getting a political break out of sympathy just because he ended in the ICU. But he was Trump-grade bad in the handling of Coronavirus. In the next few weeks he will have to go to EU to ask for a further extension of the December 2020 deadline when they are kick out of the EU for good, other wise it will be a double-whammy on UK businesses.
Boris Johnson is going to succeed talking the UK to Greece’s level and kicked out of the G7.
We’re much bigger than most other nations that have been hit by Covid-19, so comparing total numbers is pretty misleading. On a per capita basis, our overall mortality rate appears to be below (well below, in fact) Spain, Italy, France, the U.K., and even Switzerland.
The six nations behind us in the death tally have a combined population of 408 million. Ours is roughly 330 million. So, our rates of death per capita will soon exceed theirs.
Correction: Not deaths, but infections. My bad.
Why the fuck do pols talk about the peak as if ‘it’s over and were fine now?’ THE ‘PEAK’ IS WHEN THINGS ARE THE WORST! It has zero to do with how quickly the numbers start to go down! Only a few nations are past the peak so far!
Sorry for the shouting.
Okay, I’m really not.