BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 12:16:00
Robert cuffe is with me. as the covid inquiry gets under way, the bbc has gathered the best available figures to compare three years of death for any reason during the pandemic. they tell an up and down story for the uk. a terrible first year amid two huge waves, with death rates up by about 15% from the what we saw during the five years before. and then vast improvements during the second year's world—leading vaccine roll—out when we actually saw death rates fall below historical averages. but the last year didn't look so good. like some other countries, death rates drifted back up and nh...
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