epa08935121 A masked man passes a notice encouraging the wearing of face masks in London, Britain 13 January 2021. A national lockdown across England began on midnight on 05 January 2021. 2020 saw the largest increase in UK deaths in a single year since 1940, according to provisional ONS figures. In 2020, nearly 697,000 deaths were registered, compared with an average of nearly 606,000 each year between 2015 and 2019 EPA/NEIL HALL
