Coronavirus
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Ministers have been accused of playing down the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic after it emerged that more than 1,000 people died every day in the UK for 22 consecutive days – in stark contrast with daily tolls announced by the government.
At the start of Easter week, on Monday 6 April, Raab announced the death toll in on Sunday 5 April had risen by 439. Official figures show that in fact almost three times as many people died on 5 April – a total of 1,210.
Boris Johnson spoke repeatedly of “squashing the sombrero” to keep the peak under a level that would overwhelm the NHS, but the figures also show that the death toll rose more than three times faster than it fell, creating a lopsided curve that drove the overall death toll to more than 52,000.
- still, the voters don't care, all they crave is a culture war. Its ridiculous.tank02