Government pauses Covid-19 daily death toll figures over accuracy concerns
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Mirror. But there is unlikely to have been a "massive distortion", a member of the Independent Sage group said.The Department for Health and Social Care said: "The Secretary of State has today, 17 July, asked PHE to urgently review their estimation of daily death statistics."Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death."There have been claims that the lack of cut-off may distort the current daily deaths number."We are therefore pausing the publication of the daily figure while this is resolved."It comes after 114 deaths were announced yesterday.
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