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
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Flu deaths fall as ONS says many who would have been vulnerable died during first Covid wave
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
‘No sign of second wave’ as ONS data shows normal level of deaths for time of year
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,
Alzheimer, heart disease deaths at home soaring during coronavirus pandemic
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
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by ONS not due to Covid, new figures show
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
Health expert warns ‘long Covid’ could turn out to be a bigger problem than excess deaths
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
Unexplained excess deaths at home almost nine times higher than those from Covid
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
Almost one third of Covid deaths in July and August ‘primarily caused by other conditions’
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
Patients dying at home from causes other than Covid-19 are fuelling excess UK deaths: ONS figures
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,
beer bellies linked to an increase in male deaths
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.
