KEPT refreshing this page and a minute ago the data was finally released, at 9:30, as usual for Wednesdays. Before COVID-19 the average number of deaths in Week 7 was 11,301 (England and Wales). Now it’s 12,366. That’s an increase of more than 1,000 (deaths) for this week alone.

Last week: In First 5 Weeks of 2025 67,630 People Died in England and Wales Compared to 58,461 in the Same Period in 2019

HIS morning’s new numbers look like this:

It may not seem like that says very much until one checks pre-COVID-19 numbers for the same timespan. It was 11,660 in 2019 and about the same for prior years (average of 2014-2019).

New data out today.

2019

2025

Almost 10,000 more deaths in about a month.

T IS WEDNESDAY again, so there were new mortality figures this morning.

In week 5 of 2019 we had just over 11k deaths in England in Wales.

Now, in 2025, in week 5 we had 13,712 deaths. That’s nearly 14k.

Last week we saw similar increases.

The new data from ONS:

HAVE just checked this page, which was updated a few hours ago with weekly data. I then compared apples to apples or oranges to oranges. Before the COVID-19 pandemic we had vastly fewer people dying (than now).

It’s up from 11,860 in 2019 to 14,679 this year. The total population increased 1-2% in that period of time.

It was almost the same last week.

What contributes to this massive increase?

When will numbers come back to “normal”? Is the “new normal” an extra ~60,000 Brits dying per year? That’s a lot, it’s way too much, and it warrants investigation + clear answers.

T is just what the numbers released yesterday morning say:

Compare to 2019 (before COVID-19):

So we’re looking at almost 2,000 additional deaths (for a single week)…. more than before.

Maybe it’s over 2,000 if one includes Scotland and Northern Ireland.

UK deaths in December 2024 about 15% higher than before COVID-19

N THIS 2024 page updated less than a day ago we see data that the mainstream media would rather ignore.

New ONS data released yesterday morning shows that in England and Wales we had 11,950 dead people… just in Week 50 (2024). Before COVID-19 it was about 10.5k for Week 50. So we’re losing about 1,500 more people (than before) in one week in England and Wales alone.

This isn’t about very old people. People in all age groups die in growing numbers.

Why is the media ignoring this? The population grew 1-2%, so an increase so significant merits investigation and hard questions.