Under the previous system, anyone who has ever tested positive for the virus in England was automatically counted as a coronavirus death when they died, even if the death was from a car accident.
>>Under the previous system, anyone who has ever tested positive for the virus in England was automatically counted as a coronavirus death when they died, even if the death was from a car accident.
-- [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/08/09/daily-covid-death-count-could-scrapped/)
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