• 1610 deaths

    Worth repeating that the most deaths we have had in a single day so far this year is 1,064. It will be four or five days until we know how many people actually died today.

    Just starting to get to the point we will beat the worst day for deaths from first wave. (1073 on 8th April 2020)

    I know I'm an insufferable pedant but it does annoy me that the media often incorrectly report the newly announced deaths figure as the daily deaths figure.

  • I think most understand it to not be a single day. However I don’t think many would think it would span back as far as it sometimes appears to.
    So why are they still using this figure on the press conferences? Perhaps it made more sense at the beginning. I’m not sure it helps public confidence now.

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