Claim: ONS data shows huge falls in non-Covid causes of death in December 2020.
Fact-check: ONS death figures not averaged correctly - Full Fact
Verdict: the data was wrong. it claimed to show a huge fall in 2020 against the previous five-year average. but that five-year "average" hadn't in fact been divided by five, meaning it was five times too high.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-02-04T00:00:00