Parikiaki can confirm, that as of Wednesday 17th June 2020, after having contacted local hospitals, churches, the Turkish Cypriot media and community, funeral directors and from death announcements placed in our newspaper, that two Covid-19 related deaths were recorded within the UK Cypriot community one 36 year old Turkish Cypriot man and a 75 year old Greek Cypriot woman both from London. .
To date, we estimate 313 UK Cypriots (Greek, Turkish and Maronite) in total have died from Coronavirus. The figure includes 277 in London and 36 outside London.
The total fatalities now include 181 UK Greek Cypriots, 96 UK Turkish Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot, all from London. Included in the UK Greek Cypriots are three married couples and two brothers. A total of 275 UK Cypriot deaths have been recorded in London.
Outside London, there were nine UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Turkish Cypriot from Birmingham, three UK Greek Cypriots from Weston-super-Mare, who were all from the same family, one from Derby, one from Lowestoft, one from Cambridge, one from Cheltenham, three UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot from Liverpool, one UK Greek Cypriot from Luton, one from Southend, one from Glasgow, one from Newport, one from Leeds, one from Hemel Hempstead, one from Manchester one from Middlesborough, one from Margate and one from Wakefield. Four UK Turkish Cypriots, one each from Colchester, Maidstone, two Northampton and Suffolk, also passed away, bringing the total number of UK Cypriot deaths outside London to 36.
It appears most of the deaths were the result of contact prior to the lockdown at events attracting large crowds – weddings, funerals, religious services and national events such as football matches.
Having since followed Government advice on self-isolation and social distancing, this has led to the decline in fatalities.
The daily death tolls in the UK only include fatalities that have been confirmed by a positive test. But the Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducts separate studies tallying all fatalities in which COVID-19 is suspected or mentioned on the death certificate.
That figure rose to roughly over 50,000 for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, although each country reports the number of deaths counted by slightly different dates – either May 15 or May 20.
This means Britain’s COVID-19-related toll is now ever higher, although the weekly trends continue to show a slowdown in the virus’ spread.
Countries have struggled to count their dead from the new disease. World deaths 435,000 The US has more than 119,000 deaths. 22 people have died in Cyprus and 184 in Greece. In Italy, 34,405 have lost their lives to the virus, and in Spain 27,136 China has recorded 4,634 deaths, France 29,547 and Turkey 4,842
Britain is one of the last European countries to start emerging from its COVID-19 lockdown. Most stores are now open and the few restaurants and cafes that are open only provide takeaway and delivery service. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson reopened schools for younger children on 1 June, after easing stay at home orders in May
Britain’s death toll from COVID-19 death toll , a former member of the UK government’s scientific advisory group said on Wednesday.
Britain has an official death toll from confirmed COVID-19 cases of over 40,000, rising to over 50,000 cases when deaths from suspected cases are included.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced the lockdown on March 23.
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson told lawmakers that Britain had taken the right measures against the new coronavirus, but too late.
“The epidemic was doubling every three to four days before lockdown interventions were introduced. So had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have then reduced the final death toll by at least a half,” Ferguson said.
“So whilst I think the measures … were warranted … certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen many fewer deaths.”
Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College in London, produced an influential model which influenced Britain’s response to the pandemic and showed that unchecked, the virus could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
However his later estimate, once lockdown had begun, that 20,000 might die, proved inaccurate because the elderly in care homes were not successfully shielded from the virus, he said.
Ferguson stood down from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which plays a key role in shaping government policy, in May, after a newspaper reported he had broken lockdown rules by meeting a female friend.