Nurses among dead as UK death toll tops 31,000
Exclusive By Lucy Johnston Health Editor MEASURES to keep the coronavirus infection rate below one will have “calamitous long term consequences”, killiing nearly 700,000 people and wiping out a quaartnerimoaflathcet: ercoynohmoyr,nwneaws resarch suggests.
Social distancing measures would need to stay in place to keep the rate low, and a new study shows that this approach would take until December 2024 to see the virus off in the absence of a vaccine.
The economic cost of these measures would be so grave it would kill more Britons than WWII, Philip Thomas, a Professor of Risk Management at the University of Bristol has found.
The study estimated that 150,000 people will die from Covid-19 over five years under intermittent or semi-lockdown conditions that would be necessary to keep infection rates, or the R number, at the government goal of below one.
But more than three times this number will die from the collateral effects of the lockdown measures.
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Tributes have also been paid to a learning disabilities nurse Augustine Agyei-mensah, a father of four, who worked at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundationtrust. His family said: “Augustine was a caring husband and loving father.” Sue Gargett, 53, is the second person at an autism charity to die after contracting the virus.
From Shotton Colliery in Co Durham, Sue had been an invaluable worker at the North East Autism Society.
And Roy Horn, one half of the magic duo Siegfried and Roy, became the latest celebrity to die from the virus, aged 75.
Co-star Siegfried Fischbacher said: “The world has lost one of the greats of magic, I have lost my best friend.”