Maybe somebody in the UK can comment on this.
The daily death figures of Covid-19 deaths which are plastered on every news channel, and newspaper daily are totalled via counting any deaths that occur within 28 days of a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that allegedly caused Covid-19. This means that if somebody is to die crossing the road, but they had received a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 in the 28 days prior, they are added to the daily Covid death statistics.