The Covid Inquiry has started its work, as new evidence is published that the UK wasn’t among the worst performers
It estimates excess deaths in 191 countries in the first two years of the pandemic, 2020 and 2021 – that is, the number of people who died who would not have been expected to die in an average year before coronavirus.
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