Covid has killed more Brits in its first year than any other infectious disease since World War One, the latest statistics show.
The UK death toll in the 12 months after the start of the first lockdown reached 125,516, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Monday.It estimated the true figure was at least 140,000 including deaths where Covid was mentioned as the underlying cause or a contributory cause on their death certificates, the Mirror reports.This was bigger than any other infectious or parasitic disease since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.In England and Wales, around 73,500 people died with Covid registered as the underlying cause of death during 2020, the ONS said.In the year of the pandemic, almost 4,400 further deaths.