More than 88,000 people died across England and Wales in April, which means it is the worst month for deaths since records began.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in April last year 44,123 people died.
That figure, in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, has almost doubled to 88,153.
In April 2020, 27,764 people across England and Wales had coronavirus listed as their official cause of death.
But the final death toll, for those with covid-19 could be higher as patients may have had their deaths inaccurately recorded.
The 88,153 deaths figure was also a huge rise on the previous month, with March, which has 31 days, recording 49,723 deaths.
The statistics also broke down the figures across the country with the South East and North West over taking the capital with the highest amount of people losing their lives.
London, which many believe was hit earlier than the rest of the country saw 12,175 deaths in April.
The North West - including Blackburn, Blackpool, Cheshire,Warrington, and Manchester - saw 12,354 die.
And the South East - including Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Brighton and Reading, recording 12,823.
April's death toll of 88,163 represents 0.15 of the entire population.
In a separate study, Oxford researchers found that the UK has passed Sweden to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world.
Although cases are declining overall, the UK had 4.54 deaths per million residents per day on a rolling seven-day average, according to figures from the Our World in Data website.
It is slightly higher than Sweden's rate of 4.51, the researchers found.
Britain and Sweden are followed by Brazil (4.4), tiny San Marino (4.21) and the US (3.52) based on data for the week up to Monday.
Excluding San Marino, given its small population of 34,000, Belgium still has the highest per capita death rate over the entire course of the pandemic, followed by Italy, the UK, France and Sweden.
The Government said it was 'wrong and premature' to draw conclusions at this stage and claimed excess deaths should take age into consideration.
Downing Street told the Financial Times: "We will, of course, learn lessons from our response to this virus, but these must be drawn from an accurate international analysis in the future."
