Northerners were more likely to die in the first year of the pandemic, and were forced to spend 41 more days in severe restrictions compared to the rest of the country, a major report has shown. People living in the North East, North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber experienced mortality rates that were 17 per cent higher than the Midlands and the South, with 204.1 per 100, 000 people dying compared to 174.4 elsewhere. The report, by experts at universities across the North, found that care ho