Hell in the U.K. they’ve even been allowing nurses to diagnose the cause of death and subsequently to fill in death certificates FFS! The statistics in the U.K. are absolutely meaningless and corrupted beyond belief because of this.
In the UK a nurse practitioner can determine death but a death certificate can only be signed by a medical practitioner.
Every country's statistics will have errors. The only true number is corrected excess deaths. But the relative true numbers are irrelevant to quarantine. Quarantine is purely about preventing new cases coming into the UK. So the only safe countries we could exempt are....New Zealand! but you cant get to LHR non stop..... The politicians may decide they want to allow a certain number of cases in balanced against economic loss but medically quarantine is justified especially in light of the current fiasco over SERCO
We also know that SAGE considered travel restrictions by 3 February. Had they acted, again as New Zealand did, tens of thousands of UK citizens might still be alive and we may well have been returning to normal and discussing opening not closing our borders and getting airlines back in business.