Also, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
is Belgium at this moment, except for San Marino of only 30,000 inhabitants, the country with the highest death rate in the world from coronavirus epidemics, per million of population:
San Marino: 1,208
Belgium: 655
Spain: 519
Italy: 458
UK: 384
France: 369
Netherlands: 275
Sweden: 244
USA: 186
Germany: 77
Greece: 13
I believe, if the rest of the world is not much aware of that fact, that also says something about Belgian politics. I'd love to read more about the perspective of Belgians here.
Edit: see also https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps which I explain in the later post -- that independent, different statistics is, approximately, not disproving the ratios for the European countries, except for the UK, where it seems there was some kind of underreporting of Covid-19 related deaths.
"29 Apr: The death toll from the virus in the UK rises to more than 26,000 after care home deaths are included for first time"
Apart from that, luckily, we have also "all deaths" (for any reason whatsoever) statistics for participating EU countries (and, still, UK), so we can compare these too:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Even there Belgium has had quite high z-score ("computed on the de-trended and de-seasonalized series"), although there are two obviously worse at the peak: UK (much worse and without any indication of improving at the moment, according to the available statistics) and Spain, which already improved.
At the moment it seems to me that it was mostly the UK that just didn't report correctly, not that the others overreported.
There has also been a large deal of controversy over the counting of care home deaths in the UK with the government consistently being called out by care home operators for unbelievable care home death numbers.
Do you have something about "unbelievable"? Per BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52284281
"There is a two-week time lag in the data collected for official statistics. The most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are for the week ending 17 April. At that point, there had been 3,096 Covid-19-related deaths in care homes in England and Wales."
"the Care Quality Commission (CQC)" "already has to be notified when there is a death in a care home. It is also now asking care providers to give daily updates on deaths and the number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases.
Between 10 and 25 April, their findings show that 4,343 individuals died in care homes from coronavirus."
Looking at euromomo, it appears to me that the UK did not report some deaths related to Covid-19, the question is only where exactly.
Edit: to pjc50:
> San Marino lost 1,208 people (so far) out of 30k?
No. See again: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/san-marino... Total deaths: 41 == 0.12 percent == 1,208 per million
They also note on the page:
> Week of study: 17, 2020.Must be interpreted with caution as adjustments for delayed registrations may be imprecise.
> are there any which actually provide that statistic?
Sure, as I've linked it here twice already:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Belgium is among the top three there too.
Also see on ft.com:
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
the "Death rates have climbed far above historical averages" graph.
and from Italy, made on March 16, 2020:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F...
All of these also directly disprove "same as flu" narration. These are all in spite of most of the world having some kind of measures introduced.
According to what i read, this means that 50% are confirmed cases and 50% are possible cases.
Other countries only count the confirmed cases.
To give one example:
"Brussels has gone yet further. From May 4, the Belgian capital’s entire city core will be a priority zone for cyclists and pedestrians, one in which cars cannot exceed a speed of 20 kph and must give way in the roads to people on foot or on bikes. This comes on top of an ongoing pedestrianization plan designed to make Brussels’ core a more attractive place for people on foot."
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/04/coronavirus-r...
Antwerp is run by a populist extreme right neoliberal party.
They just think the south takes too much advantage ( eg. with 4 million people they have the same voting % in the country as the north with 6 million people).
While the "right" north has to subsidize the "socialist" south for more than 40 years without no improvement at all ( eg. just check the unemployment %)
Highest criminality rates in Belgium are in Brussels, Molenbeek, ... with also, no improvement in the foreseeable future. Station north is a public train station where everyone stays away from ( too dangerous ).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Moreau_(homme_po...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethys
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enodia
All financial political scandals are involved with leftisch politicians: Publifin, La Carolorégienne, Anne-Marie Lizin, Michel Daerden, Van Cauwenberghe ( Charleroi), Agusta-Dassault, ...
And last but not last, specific for Brussels: Samusocial where Yvan Mayeur ( the ex-mayor of Brussels) was involved with Fraud and intimidation, with their "non-profit for homeless people", LOL! It's despicable!
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samusocial_Brussels
I'd prefer Antwerp above Brussels every single day of the year.
First thing they did under the guise of "Corona measures' was lift the low emission zone so the most heavily polluting vehicles could once again roam free in the city, and make all on street parking free.
Their pretends that this was 'to give maximal access to care workers' fell flat immediately as all caseworkers that needed city access already had complying vehicles, and they now have trouble finding spaces to park as all streets are just permanently filled with long-term parked cars. Yet, they still persist with the idiocy.