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Question Time: MP slams government over 'absolute tragedy' of soaring Covid death toll

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A Labour MP has slammed the government's handling of the pandemic calling the soaring death toll 'an absolute tragedy' that could have been avoided.

Louise Haigh, MP for Sheffield, made the stark claims after the latest data revealed Covid had killed a further 1,290 people in the UK - a day after the country recorded the highest daily total of the pandemic so far.

It leaves the UK as having the highest death rate in the world from coronavirus. Discussing the grim milestone on BBC's Question Time last night a member of the audience, Tom, asked: "Deaths are still rising in our hospitals. "In one day 1,800 were recorded yesterday, is this lockdown enough?" Louise replied: "This week we've learned the UK has the highest death rate, seven day

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