Statistics office says way Britain is counting and reporting coronavirus-related deaths is the most transparent. FMTNews Covid19
Nurses rushing out of the ‘red zone’ where those sick with coronavirus stay at a nursing care home in England.
Ministers have rejected comparisons of the headline death toll with that of other countries, saying that excess mortality – the number of deaths from all causes that exceed the average for the time of year – was a more meaningful metric. Appearing on Sky News on Sunday, transport minister Grant Shapps rejected a suggestion that the evidence on excess mortality showed the government’s response to the outbreak had failed.
“You have to look at the whole picture and that information simply isn’t available as yet,” he said. “We shouldn’t look at the raw data and jump to conclusions.”The UK National Statistician, Ian Diamond, also cautioned against relying on any “league table” of worst-affected countries.
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