If one estimates the Jewish figure to be 269 for that day (based on the daily average between the 256 on April 16 and the 296 reported by the Board on April 19), then Jewish deaths would amount to 1.4 per cent of the total for England and Wales. Jews comprise 0.5 per cent of the UK population.
One factor behind the disproportionately high number of Jewish deaths may be that two-thirds of the community live in London, which has been particularly badly hit by the outbreak.
But the Board figures, mainly from London and Manchester, exclude some communities, a source from the yeshivah town of Gateshead, which has a comparatively young population, earlier this week said the 3,000 strong-community had lost four people due to coronavirus.
