London's five-year average number of deaths for that week was 917 but dropped 2.8 per cent to 891 in 2020. Meanwhile, deaths remain proportionally higher than average in every other region of England, and Wales, with Wales still seeing 15 per cent more deaths than usual. But across the rest of England and Wales, people continued to die in larger-than-usual numbers because of the coronavirus outbreak. This was felt most in Wales, where the number of deaths was 14.8 per cent higher than average. Additionally, the number of deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK has now passed 53,000, according to the latest available data.

Source: Daily Mail June 16, 2020 09:13 UTC