Name: How has the UK reached 50,000 coronavirus deaths? - BBC Newsnight
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So that very grim milestone, as you say today, Kirsty.

And if we look at this graphic, we can now see that the UK has become the first European country to record more than 50,000 deaths.

And this is according to the most widely accepted definition, which is death within 28 days off a positive test on what took us over the line.

There were 595 deaths reported in the last 24 hour period.

Now, how do these figures compare with other countries around the world?

So if we look at this graph, we can see that in terms of actual death, the U.

It's in fifth place in the world with, as we said, the highest numbers in Europe.

It's important to say that countries do not record their numbers in the same way, so you cannot make exact comparisons.

But let's look at another graphic on what this does is that this looks at deaths on the most widely accepted measurement that is the number of deaths per 100,000 people, 100,000 population on on that.

The UK comes in some way behind Spain, but just in front off the United States.

Now on that 50,000 milestone, this is what Boris Johnson had to say.

We mourn everybody who's gone andare feelings with their families on friends as well.

Um, it is, ah, global pandemic, whose effects whose treatments whose implications for the economy have you know, alot those have bean becoming clearer and clearer is the months have gone on.

I do think that we've got now to a different phase in the way that way.

Treat it, Andi, After the these tough water measures which I hope people will stick to really, really originally, as far a zit, possibly can, uh, we're very much hoping that two things will start to come to our aid number one.

I just described the rapid turnaround testing on then.

The other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine.

So you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves toe pummel the the disease in the weeks and months that followed the prime minister well.

Later in the program, we were discussing the resignation off Boris Johnson's director of communications, Lee Cain, with our political panel.

But first, let's look at the UK s covert response and greater detail.

Joining me is the former government scientific adviser and current member of Sage Professor Some art Walpert on from Sheffield, Dr Daniel Bride and the vice dean of the faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Daniel treats patients with covered in the intensive care unit on.

We also have Jamie Brown, whose father, Tony Brown, died in covered 19 during the first lock down in Colchester.

Now we did ask the government to speak, but it declined to talk to us tonight.

If I can begin with you, we talk about a figure of 50 0 plus.

But of course, every life lost is devastating for a family.

And I wonder if you could tell us what happened to your dad.

And what has Tony Brown passed away in the 29th of March 65?

We think that contract to co vid uh, probably on the 12th of March he was living the east coast of Essex were traveling up to London once a week for work.

Hey, travel up on the train on Thursday took the tube before the first lock down was called a few days later.

Was bedridden a few days after that, When it wasn't getting better, he called 111 They told him toe, take paracetamol to stay in bed because this is a mild illness on.

He recover the messaging at the time, then was very much their home.

He had a knee evening of dizziness, of struggling in short of breath, struggling to breathe.

Next morning, you've been nauseous in the night, called 11 again, got an ambulance.

You managed to get downstairs and needed took the ambulance to coach the General Andre within within five minutes of arriving at the hospital After all that he he essentially run out of oxygen in his heart stopped.

Andi died dreadful, very sorry for your loss.

And I wonder, was it very important to him to protect the NHS?

Was that something that he felt that he had to do personally because he could have gone in earlier?

Couldn t It's very much the idea that we were being told that unless you were one of these high risk groups, Unless you're one of these high risk groups, you you should be able to fight.

It offers almost an expectation on duty that we're all trying Thio do our best to stay away from overloading and overwhelming the health service.

Let me put that sort in trouble and put that to Danielle Bright in your experience in I see is that something that families often say to you that people were trying to do their best and not come in good evening closely.

And I just also like to offer my condolences to Jamie.

His story very powerfully illustrates some of the issues that we do come across an intensive care both in terms of patients and their relatives.

Perhaps underestimating the seriousness of co Vered, there might be a perception amongst the public that that co vid is not a serious a zit might be perceived.

But for a small number of people, it is a very serious, life threatening disease.

On DSO, the public health messaging around.

Keeping the community spread of covert down is really important because it does have serious consequences with some people.

And what has been your overriding experience of covert in I.

U where you are treating desperately ill patients?

Um, I think over the course of the year, we have had significant progress in terms of the treatments that we can give to people in intensive care on.

We have made significant inroads into improving survival from Kovar, but it is still a significantly important disease on.

Unfortunately, a number of people do still not survive that when they come to intensive care with covered on managing, their end of life care is really important on that can be difficult for their family and relatives who are homos well, so it's changed a great deal over the course of the year, but there are still some things that are fundamentally important and still remain, which is is making sure that people at the end of their lives are treated well.

Um, Dr will port what will make a difference?

Because the our rate is persistently over one, and it's between 1.1 I understand.

What is the key thing that needs to be done?

Well at the moment, the key thing that needs to be done is social distancing.

It's actually making it difficult for the virus to jump from one person to another.

One thing on every one of these deaths is a tragedy not only for the individual but for their families.

And 1000 people have been announced, having died in the last 24 hours for 48 hours.

But I wonder because we heard Michael Goof saying in response to a question.

Will the lock down in England continue after the a lot of time beyond the 2nd December?

He said, Possibly it might have to then we have Boris Johnson thing adamantly it will not continue.

What should govern The decision is the rate of new cases at the end of the day, because whilst the reproduction number is greater than one, in other words, 100 people affect, in fact, another 100 or a bit Maura's It is at the moment, then the rates will remain high Onda.

The challenge at the moment is that the numbers of cases are very high, particularly in in the north, the Northeast, the Midlands and the number of patients in hospitals is going up.

And it's it's important because people look at the rest of country and say we don't need to do as much.

But the cases of rising even faster on I wonder if Sage is going to be convened to discuss this very issue.

Because, you know, there is obviously disagreement on a different issues in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England and different decisions.

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