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Coronavirus death toll in London now worse than at height of the Blitz in World War Two
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The coronavirus death toll in London is now worse than at the height of the Blitz during World War Two. The deadly disease wiped out a recorded 4,697 in the four weeks up to April 17, according to a BBC count of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
A total of 4,677 people were killed in the city by Hitler's Luftwaffe at the height of the Blitz bombings in the 28 days to October 4, 1940.
That period began before numbers peaked and once the next set is released early next month it is expected to show a tally drastically dwarfing those of 1940. "This dramatic war on civilians has come to symbolise the horrors of total war, with the images of burning and ruined buildings and bodies dug out from the rubble," history professor at
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