Separate data today revealed Covid deaths fell by 3 per cent in England and Wales in the first week after England's national lockdown. And it comes as Cambridge University scientists have warned that England faced up to 900 daily Covid deaths by New Year's Day without the introduction of Tier Four restrictions (left). But the terrifying estimate was widely ridiculed because the country never recorded anywhere near that level of Covid deaths. The number of deaths involving Covid decreased in Wales and all English regions except the East Midlands, the East of England and the south-east of England. Cambridge academics estimated how cases (right) in the East of England have risen over the past month, and how deaths (left) will increase in the coming weeks.

Source: Daily Mail December 22, 2020 11:46 UTC