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March 10, 2021
LONDON: Weekly deaths involving coronavirus in the over-80s in England and Wales have fallen 79 per cent since a peak five weeks ago, figures show.
There were 1,118 Covid-19 deaths in adults aged 80 and over which took place in the week ending February 26, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
This is a fall of more than three quarters since the week ending January 22, when 5,326 deaths involving coronavirus took place in this age group.
Deaths in adults aged 75-79 have fallen 79 per cent over the same period, while for 70-74-year-olds the fall was 76 per cent. Some deaths in the latest week may not yet have been fully recorded. Adults aged 80 and over were included in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s second priority group for the vaccine, followed by those aged 75 and over and 70 and over.
January 9, 2021
Beijing: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday lowered its 2021 growth forecast for China to 7.9 percent, following a year of significant human and economic costs inflicted by the Covid-19 crisis.
The figure is slightly below the 8.2 percent the IMF earlier predicted, although China has been pegged as the only major economy likely to expand in the face of the coronavirus.
After a record contraction in the first three months last year due to unprecedented lockdowns and factory closures, the world´s number-two economy has since bounced back.
But the 1.9 percent full-year growth for 2020 that the IMF maintains, if confirmed, will be its worst showing since 1976, just before the start of its economic reform era.