With more than 30,000 dead on Tuesday, the United Kingdom has become the first European country and the second country in the world most affected by the coronavirus epidemic, behind the United States, according to official statistics published on Tuesday.
According to the latest report communicated by the British authorities, 32,313 people died of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, a figure higher than Italy.
Late confinement
The current toll is probably much heavier because these figures relate to deaths until April 24 for England (28,272), Wales (1,376) and Northern Ireland (393), and until 26 April for Scotland (2.272). The latest report from the Ministry of Health, which includes only hospital and nursing home deaths of patients tested positive for Covid-19, was 28,734 died Monday.
The authorities were accused of having delayed taking the measure of the risks imposing a confinement of the population only on March 23. Hospitalizations and deaths are now on a downward trend. Himself hospitalized a week because of the Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last Thursday that the "peak" of the epidemic had passed. The death toll is slowly decreasing, which is "reassuring," said Nick Stripe, an analyst with the British National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) on the BBC on Tuesday.
A dramatic situation in retirement homes
"The situation in retirement homes is even more dramatic than that," he said. "Nearly four times more deaths than we expected at this time of year were recorded in the past week, about 280% more deaths in retirement homes than the average for in the past five years, and that number is increasing. "
For fear of a new wave of contamination, the containment should be extended Thursday, the date scheduled for its next reassessment, but the government is preparing easing measures allowing a restart of the economy, in full collapse. According to several media, the exit strategy must be announced by Boris Johnson during a speech on Sunday evening.
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