A Daily Mail report highlights concerns among scientists over a sustained rise in alcohol-related deaths across Britain, with researchers pointing to factors beyond the Covid-19 pandemic as drivers of the crisis. The article frames this as part of a wider pattern of health experts identifying and explaining a surge in alcohol-related fatalities in recent years, a trend that has drawn attention from public health researchers monitoring drinking habits since the pandemic began.

The full detail of the scientists' findings was not available in the retrieved text, which was largely composed of unrelated headlines and site navigation rather than the article's substantive content. As such, specific figures, named researchers, or the precise additional causes cited alongside Covid-19 could not be confirmed from the material provided.