The latest ONS mortality statistics for England and Wales show that 237 health and care workers and 47 teachers have been killed by the coronavirus up to 23 April – deaths in the three weeks since are not included.
In Scotland:
As at 5 May, we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 7 deaths of healthcare workers and 6 deaths of social care workers, related to COVID-19. We are not able to confirm how many of these staff contracted COVID-19 through their work.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/
The UK has 12.6 times the population of Scotland so, pro rata, we might expect 12.6 times the deaths, 164, but it is 284.
Noting that the UK figures are two weeks older, we might reasonably expect that the difference is, tragically, even greater now.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
“Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence assessment by the military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents….
….In any case, the significance of the Israeli report is that news of the Wuhan development was shared with NATO allies, including one country, the UK, that prided itself as its pandemic preparedness.
The overall failure of the British government now therefore stretches over more than six months and there is abundant evidence that there has been no improvement in performance in recent weeks.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/if-we-dont-talk-about-uk-failure-on-covid-19-we-may-well-continue-it/
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“Simplistically speaking, if it took Wuhan 76 days before they reopened, then exiting by the seventh week seems risky, especially since the restrictions in Wuhan were more stringent. Other European countries (e.g. Italy, Spain, and France) that are ahead of the UK in the pandemic are also only beginning to slowly loosen restrictions. Germany relaxed its social distancing measures last Wednesday when the effective reproduction number (Rt) was 0.65. It went duly up to 1.1 within a few days. The government has said that it will only consider easing lockdown once the country has passed five tests. Let’s use the tests to look at the government’s decision.”
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/11/covid-19-how-can-we-safely-exit-lockdown/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
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“The number of UK deaths during the coronavirus pandemic over and above normal levels has exceeded 50,000, official figures confirmed on Tuesday.
The Office for National Statistics said that in the week ending May 1, there had been 17,953 deaths in England and Wales recorded, 8,012 higher than the average of the past five years in that week, as the disease killed three times the normal number of people in care homes.
This represented the seventh consecutive week that deaths exceeded normal levels and once equivalent figures from Scotland and Northern Ireland were included, takes total mortality across the UK during the pandemic to 50,979.
Nick Stripe, head of life events at the ONS, told the BBC: “[The figures are] actually the seventh-highest weekly total since this data set started in 1993 so we have had four out of the top seven weeks in the last four weeks”.”
https://www.ft.com/content/40fc8904-febf-4a66-8d1c-ea3e48bbc034?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a
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