BREAKING: UK could be worst hit country in Europe with 66,000 coronavirus deaths
Britain could suffer as many as 66,000 deaths from the first wave of theModelling conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’sof Medicine showed that approximately 151,680 people were likely to die from the virus across the continent.
More than 5,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Britain, far fewer than in Spain, Italy and France. But the UK’s epidemic lags behind the rest of the continent by several days, and its death toll trajectory is already steeper than other nations.
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