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Impact of UK coronavirus lockdown may cause 200,000 extra deaths, report finds

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Coronavirus lockdown could kill more than 200,000 Brits due to delays to healthcare and an impending recession, a government report shows.

Experts from the Department of Health, the Office for National Statistics, the Actuary's Department and the Home Office fear one million years of life lost in the long term.

They calculated up to 25,000 could die from delays to treatment in the first six months since March 23 and another 185,000 in the medium to long-term.

Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance revealed the existence of the report - published in April - at a science and technology select committee last week.

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