COVID numbers: Bringing out the unnamed dead

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COVID numbers: Bringing out the unnamed dead

19 August 2020

Lucy O'Hagan

Wednesday 19 August 2020, 02:45 AM

In the past few months of COVID-19, we have heard little about the dead themselves

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As the coronavirus numbers rise inexorably, Lucy O’Hagan ponders the anonymity of many of those whom the disease has claimed

I caught myself recently looking at a number, something like 858. It was the number of people who had died in one day, somewhere in the world, and I t

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