Reporting of death figures - very low key?

[GrumpiestOldWoman]

I am imagining it that we gave more press coverage of 500-600 death days occurring in Italy than we are now for those in the UK?

Is the reporting purposefully low key or am I missing something? I get the numbers by looking them up online, they're not easily available on my BBC news feed.

Surely if it was significant that another country had people dying in such numbers it should make a bigger headline here. Might also help when we're trying to encourage people to take the restrictions seriously.

Read this today, so I guess the actual death toll could be much higher in real time but these figures won't trickle through for days or even weeks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/why-what-we-think-we-know-about-the-uks-coronavirus-death-toll-is-wrong

I have been thinking about this very thing. The BBC state the death rate but doesn't make much of it. I also wonder when the figure they give is for. They say "In the last 24 hours" but then give the same figure for several hours. I wonder how accurate it is as they don't add any in as the hours pass.

Do the media think that because they're probably living in a coronavirus bubble the rest of us are too maybe? In reality where I live it feels like the deaths are something happening elsewhere, the local restrictions, impacts on other healthcare services etc, are the main event.