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75,000 – Government's Official Projection of Lockdown Deaths But does it even save lives? The Mail has discovered the figure the Government has put on the number of collateral deaths caused by the lockdown buried in a SAGE report. Nearly 75,000 people could die from non-Covid causes as a result of lockdown, according to a devastating official figures buried in a 188-page document.The startling research, presented to the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), will further increase pressure on Boris Johnson to hold back on introducing further coronavirus restrictions.The document reveals 16,000 people died as a result of the chaos in hospitals and care homes in March and April alone.It estimates a further 26,000 will lose their lives within a year if people continue to stay away from A&E and the problems in social care persist.And an additional 31,900 could die over the next five years as a result of missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations and the health impacts of a recession.The toll of deaths directly linked to the virus last night stood at 41,936.The estimates, drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health, the Office for National Statistics and the Home Office, were presented to Sage at a meeting on July 15th. The documents stressed that had nothing been done to stop the spread of the virus in March, 400,000 people ...
