Recorded Jewish deaths from coronavirus in the past seven days were nearly two-thirds lower than the number for the previous week.
According to the latest Board of Deputies figures, 18 victims of coronavirus received Jewish funerals from April 27 to May 4 — compared with 52 in the previous week.
Since the outbreak, 370 Jews have died from the disease, amounting just over 1.1 per cent of the 32,213 fatalities in Britain as a whole as of Tuesday.
Since Jews represent roughly 0.5 per cent of the population, the community’s losses still remain disproportionately high — but not as much as appeared earlier in the pandemic.
