Why the UK’s Covid death toll has passed 100,000 a second time

Since the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, there have been two ways of measuring deaths.

A volunteer marks coffins at Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Birmingham, which operated as a temporary morgue for the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 (Jacob King/PA)

The UK’s Covid-19 death toll has just passed 100,000 – for the second time.

It first passed 100,000 on January 7.