Revealed: The Deadliest Days Of The Pandemic So Far
(World News UK)

The UK has repeatedly set and broken new records for the number of Covid-19 deaths reported in a single day throughout January. Amid the second wave of the pandemic, these escalating totals have been echoed by the media and widely shared as grim markers of the extent to which the virus has ravaged the nation. But while it’s important to pay attention to these daily totals, they don’t tell us the whole story.How the data works The government presents daily deaths in two ways on its dashboard – the first, deaths within 28 days of positive test recorded by date of death and the second, deaths within 28 days of positive test recorded by date reported. The second of these is the...