UK takes second spot of the world’s most unwelcome podium: Covid-19 fatalities per capita. Excluding ONS excessive deaths.
Remember the day the UK overtook Italy to became the world’s third most affected country by Covid-19 ? It if feels it was just a week or so ago, your internal clock is correct, as it was on May 24th. On June 1st, the UK started to ease the lockdown measures, the same day that 111 people were announced as victims of Covid-19, along with 1590 newly infected. In fact, since May 12th, it has consistently been on the top 2 of the European countries with most daily fatalities per capita, and since May 19th disputes the spot with Sweden, although Sweden has taken the top spot every single day since May 25th. Nevertheless, when comparing the UK’s daily fatality rate with the other most affected countries, namely Spain, the UK shows a huge “advantage”. As such, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the UK would climb another step, overtaking Spain, to become the world’s second most affected country by Covid-19, as measured by fatalities per capita, behind Belgium. Today, the UK reached 58.03 fatalities per 100 000 inhabitants versus Spain’s 58.02. Yet, UK’s fatality rate still significantly exceeds that of Belgium. If we consider that Belgium excessive deaths can totally be …