FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3372
You asked
Please supply the following information:
1) How many people have had a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis on two separate occasions in the United Kingdom?
2) How many people under 40 years of age with no co-morbidities have died from COVID-19?
We said
Thank you for your request.
COVID-19 deaths with no pre-existing conditions
ONS are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.
For mortality figures where COVID-19 was the sole cause of death, please see: Pre-existing conditions of people whose death was recorded with an underlying cause of COVID-19, this dataset can be found in section 8 of the Monthly mortality analysis bulletin. This dataset provides a greater insight into the leading pre-existing cause of death groups, for deaths occurring in England and Wales, in 2020 and the first three quarters of 2021 that were due to COVID-19.
Please see 'table 1a, row 28' (2020) and 'table 1, row 29 (2021)' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales. Table 1b represents these figures for England and table 1c figures are for Wales.
This publication will be updated quarterly. COVID-19 deaths involving pre-existing conditions is split by broad age groups between 1-64 and 65+.
Please see below for death registrations for 2020 and 2021 (provisional) that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions, England and Wales, aged 0-64 and 65 and over.
2020: 9400(0-64: 1549 / 65 and over: 7851)
2021 Q1: 6483 (0-64: 1560/ 65 and over: 4923)
2021 Q2: 346 (0-64: 153/ 65 and over: 193)
2021 Q3: 1142 (0-64: 512/ 65 and over: 630)
We do not hold analysis as you have requested for people aged 40 years and under. We can produce this for you as a bespoke request. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
COVID-19 infections
The COVID-19 Infection Survey is a household survey that estimates the number of people testing positive for infection and for antibodies in the UK. Our statistics refer to the number of current COVID-19 infections within the population living in private residential households. We exclude those in hospitals, care homes and/or other communal establishments. In communal establishments, rates of COVID-19 infection are likely to be different.
You can find the number of reinfections identified in the COVID Infection Survey in our latest characteristics publication Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, characteristics of people testing positive for COVID-19, UK: 16 December 2021 and associated data in tabs 5a to 5e of the accompanying dataset. Please note that this is not representative of the UK and only includes individuals in the survey.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, formerly Public Health England) are responsible for NHS Test and Trace. You may be interested in section 2.5 Reinfections of the following technical article: SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England which provides information on reinfections with the Omicron variant. For more information on NHS test and trace data and reinfections, you can contact UKHSA via email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.
Further information and an overview of data about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Office for National Statistic (ONS) and other sources can be found in our Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights tool.