Almost 10,000 people residing in care homes in the UK have died of coronavirus, making up a quarter of all COVID-19 caused deaths in the country.
At the start of May, 8,312 people from care homes in England and Wales had lost their lives to coronavirus, while 1,195 people from Scottish care homes and 232 from Northern Irish care homes had died due to the deadly disease.
It is also believed that the total death toll of coronavirus in the UK is far more than the 32,605-figure issued by the Department of Health.
The actual number of deaths is feared to be 40% more than the official toll.
A weekly report, released by the Office of National Statistics, has shown that the recently announced death toll of 32,065 was, in fact, surpassed by the mid of April.
The actual death toll of the deadly disease stood at 38,333 as of May 1. Out of these, 35,044 people died in England and Wales.
Increasing the number of deaths by the same factor as we see between the mid of April and the start of May, the current death toll can reasonably be estimated to 44,700.
The discrepancy in the data issued by the Office of National Statistics is because it includes everyone having COVID-19 mentioned on their death certificates regardless of them being tested for COVID-19.
The government stats only count the people who have tested positive for the virus and due to insufficient testing facilities, the government has been rationing the tests for months.
Looking more closely on the stats, you can also find out that since the pandemic started, there have been 50,000 more deaths in the UK than the average number of deaths occurring in this period of the year.
This can be used as a more reliable measure of assessing how many deaths are caused by the pandemic as it also contains the number of deaths indirectly caused by the coronavirus.
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