Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The number of people who took their own life during the first covid lockdown fell, a study suggests.
An analysis of death registrations shows 1,603 suicides occurred between April and July 2020. Some three quarters of those deaths were males, according to provisional data studied by the Office for National Statistics The figures are down 18 per cent from the same period in 2019 and 12.7pc below the average for the previous five years. READ MORE: Replacement bin charges scrapped in Greater Manchester borough as new leader says council tax payers shouldn't have to stump up for new ones It equates to a mortality rate of 9.2 deaths per 100,000 people,