We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.
A surprising spike in middle-aged deaths in the U.K. is impacting profits for insurers Aviva and Legal & General, potentially influencing the pricing of life and insurance products.
Government data shows that a third of Britain has seen zero Covid deaths so far in the month of April. Some areas have gone even longer without reporting a Covid death – a whole two months in Oxford and Maidstone.
Many areas across England have now gone months without enough Covid cases to justify the publication of their data – but will the Prime Minister honour his pledge of follow "data not dates"?
The UK no longer has the highest Covid death rate in the world, according to data just released by Statista. We're now fifth. Sweden, which didn't lock down, is 22nd.
