A balance sheet slightly slower than the previous day. The United Kingdom counted, Wednesday April 15, 761 additional deaths in 24 hours in the hospital of patients affected by the coronavirus, against 778 died the day before. This brings the total number of Covid-19 victims in the country to 12,868.

The number of people tested positive reached a total of 98,476, up 4,605 ​​from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

A figure that does not include retirement homes

The figures published daily by the British health authorities only include the deaths in hospital of patients tested positive, a method criticized because it does not include deaths in retirement homes and thus mitigates the real impact of the pandemic.

According to figures released Tuesday by the National Statistics Office, England and Wales recorded a total of 6,235 deaths from Covid-19 as of April 3, where the Department of Health counted 4,093 in the hospitals.

In Scotland, the Scottish National Statistics Office (NRS) recorded 962 deaths from Covid-19 as of April 12, of which almost a quarter (237) were in nursing homes, a figure well above 699 dead registered in hospital Wednesday by health officials.

With AFP

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