Board of Deputies to stop issuing Covid mortality figures

The Board of Deputies has issued its last regular update on Jewish Covid deaths, reporting that there four Covid-related burials in the week ending April 1.

Working with burial boards and small communities since the start of the pandemic, it has recorded 1,019 funerals where the deceased had contracted Covid.

The Board said it had to assess at what point maintaining a regular count of Covid deaths contributed to alarmism rather than providing information that helped policy makers.

However, it will continue to monitor Covid mortality, mainly through analysis of “excess deaths”.