Why has the UK government stopped publishing daily coronavirus stats for England?

There’s an issue with one dataset but other statistics are still available, Jon Stone explains

Matt Hancock ordered a review of the statistics (Reuters)

The government has “paused” publishing daily coronavirus statistics for England because of concerns about their accuracy.

The reason for this is because one component of the data – which shows deaths from England – is suspected and thought to be “over-exaggerating” the count.

Academics at the University of East Anglia and the University of Oxford raised the alarm last week and said a methodological problem in the way Public Health England (PHE) gathers the data could be giving false positives.