A further 313 deaths were reported in the government’s daily figures on Saturday, taking the total to 150,057.
The UK is the seventh country to pass 150,000 reported deaths, after the US, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru.
The number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test has begun to rise, with the total of 1,271 in the past seven days up 38.3% on the previous week.
The Office for National Statistics records the number of deaths where Covid-19 is mentioned as a cause on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus, with a total of 173,248 deaths recorded up to 24 December.
Many of those deaths were unnecessary - they were caused by BJ’s dithering response to the pandemic.
The prime minister has promised to launch an independent public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic in the spring of this year.
Given BJ’s history of evasion, procrastination and prevarication, any such inquiry generated by him will be flawed and lacking credibility from the start.
Deaths per million of population is a more accurate method of calculation. For instance two of the countries in your list India and Peru. The Worldometer figures shows India with 483,463 deaths or 345 per million population whereas Peru has 202,981 deaths or 6,029 per million population
That in no way reflects the true figure of deaths either directly or indirectly caused by the COVID pandemic. The government have changed the way figures are collated several times especially in the first year when they were so slow to respond and saw the way the figures were mounting.
