Claim: Far more people have died of Covid-19 in the UK than in Japan
Fact-check: Far more people have died of Covid-19 in the UK than in Japan - Full Fact
Verdict: this is correct. at the time this post appeared there had been 31,855 covid-19 deaths reported in the uk, compared with 628 in japan.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2020-05-19T00:00:00