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England's Covid-19 death toll could be slashed by 10% after "flaws" were discovered in how the country had been counting its virus fatalities, according to reportsVideo Unavailable Thousands of England's deaths will reportedly be wiped from official records. New measures could see the country's death toll reduced by 10% after scientists raised the alarm about serious "flaws" in how it was being calculated. Up until now, Public Health England (PHE) had been including anyone who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and later died as a Covid-19 death — even if they had recovered and died of something unrelated. This means that according to the official numbers, no one would ever recover from the virus, and all 265,000 confirmed cases in England would eventually be added to the toll, even though most will recover.Read MoreRelated ArticlesHealth Secretary Matt Hancock is about to intervene and change the process to bring England's toll more in line with the rest of the UK, Deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland are only counted as Covid-related if it happens within 28 days of a positive test, and England will reportedly adopt this approach as well. It's understood a second weekly toll measure will also be established, which records the deaths of coronavirus patients within 60 days of a positive test. Hancock is expected to officially announce the new procedure by the end of this week. It could see England's official coronavirus death toll of 41,686 slashed by approximately 10%, which would take it down to 37,518.Read MoreRelated ArticlesRead MoreRelated ArticlesThat's still significantly higher than Scotland (4,817), Wales (1,568) and Northern Ireland (556). It's also higher than any other country in Europe, with Italy's death toll the second-highest at 35,181. There have been no coronavirus-related deaths in Scotland or Northern Ireland in weeks, while two people died in Wales yesterday and 63 died in England - the UK's lowest Wednesday toll since the beginning of lockdown in March. Professor Carl Heneghan, from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, says the difference in counting methods explains why England is still seeing a high Covid-19 death toll. "There is no point attributing deaths to Covid 28 days after infection," he told The Sun."All it does is muddy the water. While deaths are falling in Scotland, PHE data suggests matters are worse in England. "But if it's someone who picked up the virus in a care home in March and recovered, and last week died of a heart attack, what does that actually tell us?" He applauded the Government's pending change to the "confusing" policy.Follow&nbsp;

England's Covid-19 death toll could be slashed by 10% after "flaws" were discovered in how the country had been counting its virus fatalities, according to reportsVideo Unavailable Thousands of England's deaths will reportedly be wiped from official records. New measures could see the country's death toll reduced by 10% after scientists raised the alarm about serious "flaws" in how it was being calculated. Up until now, Public Health England (PHE) had been including anyone who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and later died as a Covid-19 death — even if they had recovered and died of...

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