Covid Deaths Update

[fiction-factory]

The method for counting deaths as Covid in England has been changed to bring it into line with Scotland, so deaths for any reason (eg heart attack, car crash) which occur more than 28 days after a positive test are no longer counted. this has brought the UK death figure down from around 46000 to 41000. It now means that we have moved down the league table of DEATHS PER MILLION population:

1 San Marino 1,238
2 Belgium 854
3 Andorra 686
4 Peru 657
5 Spain 611
6 UK 608
7 Italy 583
8 Sweden 571
9 Chile 533
10 USA 511
11 Brazil 490
12 France 465

The UK figure is still alarmingly high compared to say Germany and Greece but we do have a lower figure than Spain and Belgium and is not too far above Italy. Of course we still can't be sure all countries are counting Covid deaths in exactly the same way but there does seem to be more consistency as time goes on.

It's amazing though how low the figures are for the country where this started- China reports 3 deaths per million compared to our figure of 608. The figures seem low in Eastern Europe and Africa too.

[Deskdiary]

Marvellous post J2.

[jourdain2]

Thank you, Deskd.. :)