LONDON (Reuters)- Britain has replaced Italy as the European country with the highest official reporting death newly-crowned pneumonia, adding to the pressure on Prime Minister Johnson to deal with the crisis, according to data released Tuesday.
May 5,2020, Cambridge Royal Papworth Hospital staff wearing protective clothing for the ICU ward cleaning work. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS
The number of new death in England and Wales as of more than 7,000 in the week ending April 24, with a total of 32,313, according to weekly data from the British National Bureau of Statistics.
Data so far show that only the United States has a higher number of diagnosed new crown pneumonia death than the United Kingdom, but the total population of the United States is nearly five times that of the United Kingdom.
Tuesday`s figures are based on the number of references to the new coronavirus that death prove, including suspected cases.
Although different statistical methods make it difficult to compare with other countries, the figures confirm that the UK is one of the by the new crown epidemic. A new coronavirus has caused more than 250,000 death. worldwide
"We do not think we can really judge the situation in each country until the end of the epidemic, especially until we have comprehensive international data on all-cause death rates ," British Foreign Secretary Rab (Dominic Raab) told journalist.
Opposition politicians said the data proved that the government was too slow to provide adequate protective equipment to hospitals in time and to conduct mass testing.
British prime minister`s residence speaker in response to the data mentioned johnson`s recent view that the uk has passed the peak but is still in a "dangerous phase ".
Italy and Spain are the European countries that are second only to the UK in terms of the severity of the epidemic, but their populations are smaller than those of the UK, increasing the complexity of the comparison.
"It`s not helpful to make a chart showing that the United States is first and the United Kingdom is second, but once a population-by-population analysis is started, we should seriously ask what`s different ," said Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University.
For the first time, the cumulative daily death toll from the British government rose to 29,427 Tuesday, surpassing Italy. The UK data only record the dead in confirmed cases.
Local parliament say they do not have the tools to carry out the plan, and often give them only a few hours to execute government new instructions, even if government promise to protect the old and the weak from the virus, a Reuters report said on Tuesday.
According to Reuters calculations, the epidemic has caused at least 12,700 death .( to end)
