[Sephiroth]

On the question of why UK mortality stats are exceeding Italy's, are the following factors relevant?

1/
UK population is 68m; Italy is 60m.

2/
Italy stats don't include people who contracted the disease when ski-ing, who then left Italy, returned to the UK and infected others - so welling our numbers? That could be a 4 figure number returning from Italy each passing on to 5 people, etc.