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More than 5,000 coronavirus fatalities wiped off official death toll in Government shake-up
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mirror.co.ukMore than 5,300 fatalities have been wiped from the official coronavirus death toll after a Government overhaul of the way figures are recorded.
In a major change to daily deaths reporting, the UK will only count people who died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test.
The decision to imposed a new cut-off brings England in line with Scotland and Wales, and comes after concern from experts that the death toll was being overstated.
Under the new method, the UK death toll comes down from 46,706 to 41,239 on Wednesday - a reduction of 12%. Health Secretary Matt Hancock paused daily death reporting in July and ordered an urgent review of the figures amid fears England's death toll was too high.
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