XPS tracker: Covid-19 deaths may have reached 50,000

Hope William-Smith
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A new tracker launched by XPS Pensions Group predicts Covid-19 related deaths for the UK are now at or close to 50,000.

This figure is higher than that of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which reports around 45,000 people have been registered as dying from coronavirus or related causes in the UK this year ...

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