The UK is, by most measures, faring worse than other countries in managing the Covid-19 pandemic, with one of the highest total and current death rates in the world. More than 80,000 people have died with Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificate according to the ONS and, due to the high level of hospitalisations across the country, this number is sadly guaranteed to continue rising.
The latest figures, released today by the ONS, also put the scale of deaths in 2020 into sobering context. The data show that 608,002 people died of all causes in England and Wales between the weeks ending 3 January 2020 and 1 January 2021. This is 75,925 more deaths than have occurred on average during the equivalent weeks over the last five years, an excess of 14 per cent.
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