Starting UK coronavirus lockdown three days earlier 'would have saved 20,000 lives'

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04.08.2020 - 22:23

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Starting lockdown just three days earlier would have saved 20,000 lives, new research shows. Scientists claim certain countries were unwilling to take the economic cost of shutting businesses and ordering people to stay home earlier.

Modelling by the University of Exeter Business School calculated that delaying lockdown by three more days would have cost 32,000 more lives.

A delay of 12 days would have seen 200,000 extra deaths linked to Covid-19, they found. They have calculated a “price of a life” in the impact on lost GDP linked to lockdown for every death avoided.

The price of life in the UK was among the lowest at around £77,000. Follow all coronavirus updates on our live blog here Countries that were quicker to go into lockdown,

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