Archive

  • Christmas week registers 51% more Covid-19 deaths than expected

    06 January 2021

    UK has 75,000 excess deaths since pandemic outbreak, according to CMI actuaries

  • Covid-19 drives CMI to recalibrate 2020 mortality projections

    15 December 2020

    This year is likely to be an outlier, say actuaries

  • UK death rates back above expected levels

    04 November 2020

    "Excess mortality" returns due to second wave of Covid-19

  • Excess deaths in England and Wales drop below 2019 levels

    30 June 2020

    CMI says 13-19 June was first time since March that excess deaths have turned negative

  • UK actuaries highlight drop in non-Covid-19 deaths

    17 June 2020

    CMI to focus on registered deaths rather than estimated figures

  • UK weekly Covid-19 deaths rise slightly

    26 May 2020

    Increase is masked by backlog of unregistered deaths from previous week

  • UK holiday exaggerates drop in Covid-19 deaths, says CMI

    19 May 2020

    Just 88 deaths recorded on VE Day, nearly 30 times lower than previous Friday

  • Actuaries anticipate decline in UK "excess" weekly deaths

    12 May 2020

    But fall in death rates will be gradual, says the CMI

  • UK coronavirus death rate beginning to fall, say actuaries

    05 May 2020

    But Covid-19 deaths remain roughly double the government quoted figures

  • UK coronavirus deaths are 'roughly double' that of quoted figures, say actuaries

    28 April 2020

    Approximately 45,000 more deaths than expected this year