Just 851.2 people per 100,000 died last month – the lowest figure since the ONS started recording mortality rates in 2001. At the height of the first wave of the Covid pandemic last April, death rates were 1,859 per 100,000. The latest figures show that 38,899 people died in April – 6.1 per cent fewer than the … Continue reading Death rate in England is lowest since records began – The Telegraph