What is the true rate of Covid-19 deaths in the UK?
Covid-19 accounts for an average of 11 of the 1,687 deaths in Britain
every day, according to official statistics.
In comparison, 124 people died each day from flu and pneumonia in the
week ending Sept. 4.
Heart disease – Britain’s biggest killer – accounted for 460
deaths every day last year, while cancer kills an average of 450 people per
day.
Around 87,000 people die of dementia each year – about 240 a
day. Lung disease accounts for 31,000 deaths, or 84 every day, while fatal accidents
at home – often while doing DIY – lead to 16 deaths per day.
Every day 5 people die in road accidents across the UK,
while infections (including C.difficile and stomach bugs) kill 5,691 a year,
about 16 people a day.
Last year (2019), there were 5,691 deaths attributed to
suicide, an average of 15 per day.
There were 2,958 stillbirths, 2,831 deaths in infants under
one year, and 3,248 deaths in children under five in 2018.
Source: article in Daily Mail, 20 Sept. 2020
