UK records another 398 Covid fatalities - more than DOUBLE last weeks total of 168 - but surge is blamed on 'data processing' error after 141 deaths were excluded from Saturday's figures
- Further 398 coronavirus deaths were reported today, a 137% rise on last Sunday
- The Government has blamed today's surge in death toll on a 'processing update'
- The 141 deaths that went unreported yesterday were added on to today's total
- The figure for Sunday alone is 257, meaning an actual rise of 53% on last Sunday
- 18,662 new Covid cases were reported today marking 25% drop on last Sunday
The UK has recorded a further 398 coronavirus deaths today, more than double last Sunday's total of 168
But the Government has blamed today's surge in death toll on a data processing error which saw 141 fatalities go unreported yesterday.
The deaths excluded from Saturday's data were added on today's, meaning the figure for Sunday alone is 257.
This signals a much smaller rise in the number of Covid deaths compared to last week - with the actual increase standing at 53 per cent.
Furthermore, the 18,662 new Covid cases reported today mark a 25 per cent drop on the 24,962 positive tests seen last week.
A Government statement read: 'Due to a processing update, 141 previously published deaths within 28 days in England were excluded from the published data on November 21.
'This issue has now been corrected for data published on November 22, which includes deaths omitted yesterday in today's total and daily number of newly reported deaths.'
Last Sunday saw the hospital death toll increase by 168, and the Sunday before that, November 8, saw another 161 patients die (pictured: A test in November)
The figures come as Boris Johnson is set to outline a return to the three-level system but with more areas potentially placed into the top Tier 3 than before the November lockdown, ahead of a planned relaxation at Christmas.
Mr Johnson is also planning to relax the much-criticised 10pm pub curfew, easing restrictions to allow drinking holes to call last orders at 10pm and give punters an hour to drink up and finish meals.
But Mr Johnson's plans, which have to be approved in a Commons vote to become law, are facing strident opposition from a hardcore block of his own party, who argue that the restrictions cause more damage than they prevent.
MPs in the Covid Recovery Group wrote to the Prime Minister last night demanding he give Parliament a full 'cost-benefit analysis' of the new system amid concerns over the ongoing effect on the economy and also people with existing long-term health problems.
In the letter to the PM, the group led by former chief whip Mark Harper and High Wycombe MP Steve Baker, said: 'There is no doubt that Covid is a deadly disease to many and it is vital that we control its spread effectively. But we must give equal regard to other lethal killers like cancer, dementia and heart disease, to people's mental health, and all the health implications of poverty and falling GDP.
'The tiered restrictions approach in principle attempts to link virus prevalence with measures to tackle it, but it's vital we remember always that even the tiered system of restrictions infringes deeply upon people's lives with huge health and economic costs...
'We cannot support this approach further unless the Government demonstrates the restrictions proposed for after December 3 will have an impact on slowing the transmission of Covid, and will save more lives than they cost.'
A row over care home admission has been reignited.
In answer to a parliamentary question from Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said patients being discharged from hospital many not need to have two negative tests, as has been Scottish Government policy since April, if clinicians believe it is in their interest to be moved.
Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Ms Freeman said it is 'right and proper' that medical staff are able to make those decisions.
She added: 'It is not right - and I don't believe your viewers would expect me, as a non-medical, non-clinical politician - to be intervening in that decision.'
Ms Lennon called on the Scottish Government to put an end to the practice, accusing the Health Secretary of 'throwing doctors and social workers under the bus for following her guidance'.
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2020-11-22 15:03:00Z
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