Claim: On average there are less than 10 deaths a week from Covid-19.
Fact-check: More than 10 people are dying of Covid-19 each week in the UK - Full Fact
Verdict: this is untrue. at the time this claim was made, there was a seven-day average of 8.6 covid-19 deaths each day. in the seven days before this was claimed, 57 covid-19 deaths were reported in the uk.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2021-06-02T00:00:00