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UPDATE 1-UK COVID-19 daily death count could be scrapped - Telegraph

Sun, 09th Aug 2020 23:12

(Adds background on investigation into daily death count)

Aug 9 (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.

The conclusions of the investigation, which was ordered by
Health Secretary Matt Hancock after it emerged officials were
"exaggerating" virus deaths, are expected this week, the
newspaper said.

One recommendation could be to move to a weekly official
death toll instead, a government source told the Telegraph.

Britain paused its daily update of the death toll last month
and the government ordered a review into how Public Health
England reports coronavirus deaths, after academics said the
daily figures may include people who died of other causes.

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".

England's death figures vary substantially from day to day
due to this reason, the academics had argued.

In contrast, the other parts of the United Kingdom do not
follow the same approach. There is a cut-off threshold of 28
days in Scotland after a positive test, after which a patient is
not automatically considered to have died from the virus.

Britain, one of the countries hardest hit by the virus,
reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, its
highest daily increase since June, taking the total number of
cases past 310,000.
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel
Wallis)

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