Claim: More people died from suicide than from Covid-19 in August.
Fact-check: This post comparing deaths in August is a guess - Full Fact
Verdict: there is no data on the number of deaths from suicide in august this year, as the cause of death needs to be confirmed by an inquest. the monthly average from 2018, the most recent year we have data for, was slightly higher than the number of covid deaths in august 2020.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2020-09-24T00:00:00