Reporter: “Today, the data from the Office of National Statistics gives us a snapshot of the number of people we expect to die in any given period… and how many people are actually dying. So these are ‘excess deaths’…
So, we have 14,530 people who died in England and Wales in the week ending 23 December… When you compare that to weeks in previous years, that means roughly two-and-a-half thousand more people died than expected…
Over the last 6 months, the total number of excess deaths is over 30,000 in England and Wales. There have been exactly 8,000 deaths due to COVID in that period, and if we exclude those from the total, it means there’s been an extra 22,040 deaths not caused by COVID in the past six months alone, equivalent to 848 per week. We don’t know what is driving those excess deaths.”
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