Covid-19: Recent claims about cremations and vaccines fact-checked
By Jack Goodman and Kayleen Devlin
BBC Reality Check and Monitoring
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image captionCovid vaccines have been shown to be very safe, but people continue to make unfounded claims to the contrary
Throughout the pandemic, statistics have been used in misleading and false claims about the impact of Covid-19 and the use of vaccines.
Here are four recent claims we ve fact-checked.
Claim: Cremations and burial rates are no higher than normal
Verdict: This is not correct. Across the UK, there was a sharp increase in cremations in 2020.
Over recent months, people have been sharing data from Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs) about cremations and burials in different local authorities across the UK.
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