LONDON (REUTERS) - The UK's official Covid-19 daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England's method of counting the toll, The Telegraph newspaper reported.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - The UK's official Covid-19 daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England's method of counting the toll, The Telegraph newspaper reported.
One recommendation could be to move to a weekly official death toll instead, a government source said. Academics in a blog post had warned that the way the government health agency calculated the figures was skewed as patients who tested positive for coronavirus, but are successfully treated, will still be counted as dying from the virus"even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later".
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