Government data has revealed the number of people in Carlisle who died with the Covid-19 disease on their death certificate.

The ongoing Covid-19 inquiry is examining the UK’s response to and impact of the pandemic.

Public hearings are taking place across 35 days between October 3 and December 14, and are being streamed on the inquiry's YouTube.

They will examine decision-making in Westminster between January 2020 and February 2022, when the final Covid restrictions in England were lifted.

 

In January of this year, the UK Health Security Agency said it was changing how it reported on Covid deaths, using deaths where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death registration, rather than the previously used metric of deaths within 28 days of a reported Covid-19 infection.

As of November 3, 231,683 people across the UK had died with Covid-19 on their death certificate by date registered.

This included 510 in Carlisle, which means that 469.9 per 100,000 people in the area have died with Covid-19.

It was estimated recently that 1.9 million people in the UK are living with so-called 'long Covid' - a condition with a variety of symptoms which is still being studied.

The inquiry has revealed a number of shocking allegations from within the Tory Government, with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the firing line. 

Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance wrote in his diary that Johnson agreed with some Tory MPs who thought Covid was "nature's way of dealing with old people."

In August 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson was "obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going".

39 per cent of patients in North Cumbria Integrated Care hospitals occupying beds on April 6, 2020 were people with Covid-19.

Former chief adviser Dominic Cummings claimed in July 2021 that Mr Johnson was not prepared to impose lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of Covid in autumn 2020 because "the people who are dying are essentially all over 80."

In October 2020, Mr Johnson wrote via WhatsApp: "I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of the data on Covid fatalities. The median age is 82-81 for men 85 for women. That is above life expectancy. So get Covid and live longer."

Mr Johnson suggested the data shows "we don't go for nationwide lockdown".