NHS struggles as lockdown boozing causes deaths from liver disease to soar to unprecedented levels

NHS struggles as lockdown boozing causes deaths from liver disease to soar to unprecedented levels Deaths from alcohol-related liver disease reached record levels at the height of the Covid pandemic, NHS figures have revealed.

More than 5,200 people under 75 lost their lives to the condition in 2020 – 20 per cent more than the year before and the highest number since records began.

Hospitalisations related to the disease also reached unprecedented levels that year, rising to 25,000 – a jump of 57 per cent since 2010. The Daily Mail