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Quote from The Sun:

Lockdowns have made little impact on Covid-19 death rates around the world, it’s claimed.

Countries across the world ordered its citizens to stay home and shut up shop in a bid to stop the virulent coronavirus spreading.

But now a study has sensationally claimed the drastic measures did not help reduce the global death toll which is currently more than 625,000.

Experts from the University of Toronto and the University of Texas compared mortality rates and cases in 50 different countries worst hit by the pandemic up until May 1.

They found while imposing lockdown did stop hospitals from being overwhelmed, this did not necessarily prevent high death tolls.

Instead, the researchers concluded, the number of Covid-19 related deaths depended on the health and age of each nation before the pandemic.

Those with above-average obesity rates, such as the UK, were 12 per cent more likely to have significantly higher death rates than those without.

In Britain two thirds of adults and a third of children are overweight.

Studies have previously shown that there is a link between Covid-19 and obesity

Countries with a higher median population age were 10 per cent more likely to have gravely ill patients.

The team also found wealthier nations had high deaths rates because their citizens travelled abroad more than poorer countries.

The full report in the on-line version of The Lancet can be found on this link It's rather pithy.