Latest update on excess deaths in the UK since mid-March:
Giles is the Economics Editor for the Financial Times and has been compiling these excess deaths figures since near the beginning of the pandemic.
And here's yesterday's announced daily death toll, which is worth bearing in mind when considering the Tory government-sanctioned COVID Superspreader Event planned for Christmas.
696 is the highest recorded daily toll since early May.
It brings the total death toll from the pandemic to 56,533. | ITV National News
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