Anti-lockdown protests erupted across China following a deadly apartment fire in Xinjiang last week. The country’s zero-COVID policy may have been to blame, as first responders were apparently restricted from…
The ONS said the biggest change in mortality rates had been in flu and pneumonia, which are far lower than the five-year average. Around 1,500 people would be usually expected…
The ONS figures show that, since the week ending September 4, registered coronavirus deaths in England and Wales have been roughly doubling every fortnight. However, the country is now entering…
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Cambridge University, said: “Usually around 300 people die each day in their homes in England and…
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) were not due to Covid, new figures show. On Thursday, the ONS published data comparing Covid deaths in…
Prof Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, said their research had found that the effects of the virus lingered for a long time in significant numbers of…
Recent studies have shown that many people did not seek help for serious conditions, such as heart attacks, in recent months. Professor Karol Sikora, the Dean of Medicine at the…
The team uncovered the figures after comparing the number of registered deaths where coronavirus was not the main cause to the ONS data. During the pandemic, 263,826 deaths were recorded…
Overall, the number of excess deaths which occurred in people’s own homes was more than twice the total number of Covid-19 deaths in any setting, including including hospitals and care…
Men with beer bellies are a third more likely to die from prostate cancer than those with slimmer waistlines, a study by Oxford University suggests. A waistline of more than…
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