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    First day with no UK COVID-19 deaths

    Created by isaacdunn on {{qctrl.question.created_time | dateStr}}
    Published by isaacdunn on {{qctrl.question.publish_time | dateStr}}

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    As of mid January 2021, more than a thousand people are dying in the UK with COVID-19 every day.

    When will there be a day on which no one in the UK dies with COVID-19?

    This question resolves on the first day for which the UK government's dashboard reports there were no deaths of people who had had a positive test result for COVID-19 and died within 28 days of the first positive test.

    This should resolve according to the "by date of death" panel, not the "by date reported" panel, although the latter is the figure usually reported by the media.

    Note that resolution should only occur when data is acknowledged as complete (currently this takes five days), but the question should resolve retroactively to the first date of zero deaths (e.g. five days earlier).

    If still open, the question should close retroactively one day prior to the date of zero deaths.

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    Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)

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