CMI: Excess deaths reach new high for 2020

Hope William-Smith
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The UK’s cumulative excess deaths figure for 2020 is higher now than at the previous peak of 64,600 recorded during the first wave of Covid-19, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) says.

The figures from the CMI's mortality monitor - which has tracked UK mortality analysis since the outbreak of coronavirus in the country in March - are based on provisional England and Wales deaths ...

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