Visualising 150,000 UK coronavirus deaths
Camilla Claridge, from Oxfordshire, lost her grandmother to Covid in February last year and on the night of her funeral, she learned that her father was also dying with the virus.
"It's hard to even imagine 150,000 people, families who have gone through what we're going through," she added. Jo Goodman, co-founder of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign, said the "country needs answers as to why we have suffered one of the highest global death tolls". It's almost a year since the UK recorded 100,000 deaths. Most of those came in two waves - a sharp sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow, sustained rise in the autumn and winter of 2020 into 2021, largely before vaccines were available.
Today, the total number of deaths in the UK stands at more than 150,000. It is a sobering reminder of why societies cannot ignore Covid. It hasn't gone away. However, he added "the pandemic is not over" and urged people to "play their part" by getting vaccinated.said a fourth Covid jab was not needed for most people yetData suggests that three months after getting a booster dose, protection against hospital admission remains at about 90% for people aged 65 and over.
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