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April 2020
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82.5.150.93 (talk) 12:39, 24 April 2020 (UTC)Hello, My name is John. The Public Health Agency figures are not the official figures. NISRA figures published today refer to all deaths from Coronavirus up to 17th April 2020,published a week in arrears, irrespective of where the deaths occurred. Even then there are some suggestions that NISRA are themselves understating the figures. As to PHA figures, I am not sure that they can be relied on. They did 'lose' 26 deaths the other day. Figures from Europe and Republic of Ireland indicate that 50% of all deaths occur outside hospitals, in Care & Nursing Homes,hospices and at home. The Financial Times in a free to read article https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab indicate that UK has more than 41,000 deaths. The Republic of Ireland figures include deaths from all sources. An interesting free to read article in Irish Times published by Mike Tomlinson of QUB https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/coronavirus-ireland-is-one-island-with-two-very-different-death-rates-1.4234353

The graphs at the bottom are well absolute figures. They are not comparing like with like. Rates per million population would be more definitive than absolute figures. Also deaths in Republic outside hospitals are included whereas Northern Ireland are not included. It totally distorts the overall position on the island. Death rate in the Republic is significantly lower than Northern Ireland which is significantly lower than rest of UK 82.5.150.93 (talk) 12:39, 24 April 2020 (UTC)