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Daniel Keane

Extra 30,000 ‘needless’ heart disease deaths since start of Covid pandemic

Ambulances parked outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel

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More than 30,000 extra heart disease deaths have occurred since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, a charity has warned, amid ambulance delays and growing waiting lists for treatment.

Analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) found there has been an average of 230 additional weekly heart disease deaths than normal since the start of the pandemic.

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