Norfolk's 2020 Covid death toll revealed | Great Yarmouth Mercury

Published:
9:07 AM January 19, 2021
  
A man walks past a poster in the window of a Primark shop in the final week of a four week national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.
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Almost half of all deaths between March and December last year in Norfolk's worst hit neighbourhoods were from coronavirus. 
ONS data shows the virus was responsible for 802 deaths in the region – 8pc of the 10,442 deaths recorded.
The highest Covid death toll came in Swaffham, where 26 people died. In all, 123 people in the town died during the same period, meaning the virus was responsible for 21pc of deaths.

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