{"id":237118,"date":"2021-06-24T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237118"},"modified":"2021-06-25T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:18:15","slug":"just-one-in-125-deaths-linked-to-covid-almost-14-times-as-many-fatalities-were-attributed-to-flu-and-pneumonia-during-early-june-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237118","title":{"rendered":"Just one in 125 deaths linked to Covid: Almost 14 times as many fatalities were attributed to flu and pneumonia during early June, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Symptoms were present in only 0.8% of people who died in week ending June 11\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Almost 14 times as many deaths were attributed to flu and pneumonia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The total of 84 Covid-related deaths is the lowest in more than eight months\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Steve Doughty \u2013 Daily Mail June 23, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Covid-19 caused (actually it was just diagnosed, it did not cause) just one in every 125 deaths in England and Wales in early June, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of the virus were present in only 0.8 per cent of people who died in the week which ended on Friday, June 11, the Office for National Statistics said.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 14 times as many deaths were attributed to flu and pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>The total of 84 Covid-related deaths is the lowest in more than eight months \u2013 and the second lowest since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors reported that in 66 of the 84 deaths, the virus was considered the main cause.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet more evidence that the link between Covid infections and deaths is breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>Across the UK there were 93 Covid-linked deaths, the first time the number of weekly deaths across the whole country of those suffering from the virus has dropped below 100 since the beginning of the second wave late last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the figures pointed towards a mid-July end to pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I hope that we can take the steps on July 19, that are pencilled in for then, because the data is looking encouraging,\u2019 he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9714685\/Just-one-125-deaths-linked-Covid-early-June-figures-show.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 was diagnosed in less that one percent of deaths in the week ending June 11. At the same time the number of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia has soared.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237147,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237118\/revisions\/237147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}