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As of 5 June 2020 the death rate across the UK from COVID-19 was 592 per million population. [11] The death rate varied greatly by age and healthiness. More than 90% of deaths were among the most vulnerable: those with underlying illnesses and the over-60s.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . In the United Kingdom , it has resulted in [ until when? ] 25,025,553 [ 2 ] confirmed cases, and is associated with 232,112 [ 2 ] deaths.
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
The first case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in London, England, was confirmed on 12 February 2020 in a woman who had recently arrived from China.By March 2020, there had been almost 500 confirmed cases in the city, and 23 deaths; a month later, the number of deaths had topped 4,000.
20 November – Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic, gives evidence to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, telling the haring that there was a complete lack of leadership in Autumn 2020 as cases rose again following the summer. [226]
In a small study of 26 decedents, [better source needed] the pandemized COVID-19 and infection-related disease were "major contributors" to patients' death. [12] Such deaths are sometimes evaluated via excess deaths per capita – the COVID-19 pandemic deaths between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, are estimated to be ~18.2 million ...
Neglect by NHS staff contributed to 13-year-old’s sepsis death, coroner rules. ... Mrs Longster told the PA news agency she felt “powerless” in the 18-and-a-half hours Chloe was in hospital.
The risk of death from sepsis is as high as 30%, while for severe sepsis it is as high as 50%, and the risk of death from septic shock is 80%. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 6 ] Sepsis affected about 49 million people in 2017, with 11 million deaths (1 in 5 deaths worldwide). [ 16 ]