ANALYSIS: Out of the gloom the ONS COVID figures did some have some good news
Amid the relentless gloom in the numbers on Britain's COVID-19 ordeal, there were a couple of rare nuggets of good news buried in today's Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures on the disease's death toll, writes our economics editor Ed Conway.
The first is that the number of people dying in England and Wales, both of COVID-19 and other causes, has now peaked and is falling for the first time since the pandemic hit.
This is, of course, not the first time we have heard something along those lines. The prime minister said as much last week and the official numbers we get from the government each day seem to bear that out.
Yet (and this is very important) those figures do not tell the full story.
For, confusingly, there are broadly speaking three ways of counting the number of people who have lost their lives to the disease.
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2020-05-06 08:20:34Z
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