UK overtakes Italy with Europe's highest official coronavirus death toll

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The United Kingdom has overtaken Italy to report the highest official death toll from the new coronavirus in Europe, new figures show.

Opposition politicians said the figures proved the government had been too slow to provide enough protective equipment to hospitals and introduce mass testing.

He also cited the advice of England's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty: "Different countries are recording different things in relation to deaths." The daily cumulative death toll published by Britain's government, which unlike the ONS figures records deaths only for confirmed coronavirus cases, rose on Tuesday to 29,427 - exceeding Italy's own daily toll for the first time.

 

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Italy doesn’t report add in deaths in care homes. Additionally can news organizations start reporting deaths per million instead of this absolute numbers tripe.

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