NHS England confirmed 744 more patients have died in its hospitals and a total of 34 fatalities were announced across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
The increase from 717 deaths recorded yesterday is small – 8.5 percent but it comes at the end of a four-day bank holiday weekend, meaning deaths that happened after Wednesday last week may be underreported because of a data lag which appears to happen every weekend.
Government scientists have cautioned against pinning too much hope to the numbers of people dying because they date back up to two weeks and do not represent the situation on the day they’re published.
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By the end of March coronavirus had become a contributing factor in one in every five deaths in England (21.2 percent), according to separate data published today, and more people died in the first week of April than in any other week of the past 15 years.
A more promising development is the apparent stabilising of the number of people being diagnosed with the virus each day – 5,252 more people were diagnosed in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of positive tests so far to 93,873.
Today’s statistics come amid a row over care homes’ role in the ongoing crisis. Elderly people account for the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths but authorities are not routinely testing the 400,000 Britons who live in care homes and records only publish homes’ death statistics in once-weekly updates which are 10 days out of date.
And a shocking analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility, an arms-length government organisation, has warned Britain’s economy could shrink by a third as a result of the coronavirus and, if the lockdown lasts for another two months, 10 percent of the workforce (two million people) could end up unemployed.
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