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UK pauses virus toll count over data issue – Education – Australian Associated Press
The UK has paused its daily update of the coronavirus death toll over concerns that the number of deaths from COVID-19 may have been exaggerated.
Britain has said it was pausing its daily update of the death toll from the coronavirus after the government ordered a review into the calculation of the data over concerns the toll might have been exaggerated.
Academics have said the way that Public Health England, the government agency responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks, calculates the figures in England means they may be distorted compared to other parts of the United Kingdom.
“Currently the daily deaths measure counts al…
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