UK abandons daily coronavirus death toll over claims number is 'exaggerated'

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The government has paused announcing daily death toll figures from coronavirus - amid concerns over their accuracy.

A review has been launched after experts said the number of fatalities could be over-exaggerated - but the move had been branded "odd".

Academics have said the way that Public Health England(PHE) calculates the data means they might look worse there than in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

But there is unlikely to have been a "massive distortion", a member of the Independent Sage group said.

In a statement, the Department for Health and Social Care said: "The Secretary of State has today, 17 July, asked PHE to urgently review their estimation of daily death statistics.

"Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death.

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