By Gavin Mackintosh –
The Uk’s highest rate of Covid-19 deaths may not necessarily be accurate because it includes deaths in private homes and other establishments, unlike that of Italy where only patients who tested positive were officially registered as having Covid-19. Most, if not all other European countries have only registered Covid-19 deaths that were tested, though this could also be interpreted as a poor reflection of their integrity if other genuine deaths were deliberately hidden.
Real Covid-19 deaths should not be withheld from the public whether tested or not, but establishing the credibility of the untested diagnosis can be an issue. The answer will be the expertise of medical professionals examining those patients in care homes, but that indeed depends on their overall expertise. Should all qualified medics be assumed to have enough expertise to register a diagnosis without the official mechanism of testing? Maybe so, but confirmation is required.
The ONS announced that 1,306 died of Covid-19 in Uk private homes. It confirmed that a further 216 died in communal establishments and other locations. The figures are based on mentions of Covid-19 on death certificates, and include those who did not test positive for coronavirus, according to the ONS. Explaining this, an ONS spokesperson told The Eye Of Media.Com that: ” a medical expert would have been present in all cases of home care deaths and confirmed that patients showed high symptoms of Covid-19”.
However, other EU countries who have excluded untested diagnosis from their statistics are being considered to have a lower death toll of Covid-19 than the Uk. Thismakes such international comparisons inaccurate because of the different methods of registered diagnosis. The new figures released have seen the UK’s official coronavirus death toll rise to 28,734 after a further 288 people died, the Health Secretary confirmed. The Office for National Statistics said 29,648 deaths had taken place by 27 April in England and Wales with Covid-19 mentioned in death certificates. The new figure surpasses the death toll of 29,029 in Italy, but The figure is 11,500 deaths higher than the five-year average death toll for England and Wales.
The ONS said that hospital deaths from all causes dropped by 1,191 to 8,243. But care home deaths increased by 595 from the previous week to 7,911. In the 17 weeks since the ONS began measuring coronavirus deaths in England and Wales, 71.8 per cent have occurred in hospital. Care homes account for most others, now totalling 5,890.
England saw its lowest daily increase of Covid-19 deaths yesterday since the lockdown began.. Another 204 people died to bring the country’s total to 21,384 today.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) counted 29,648 deaths from coronavirus as of 24 April in England and Wales in figures released today. The latest ONS figures for the week ending 24 April show there were 21,997 deaths, which is 11,539 more than the average for that week.