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Since March 2020 what are the deaths numbers of people that have died with a positive test without any underlying health conditions in the under 70 year olds.
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Thank you for your request.
The mortality data published by ONS are derived from the formal process of death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
We do not hold analysis on the number of people who have died following a positive test from COVID-19 with no underlying health conditions specifically for those under 70.
However, you may find the following information useful:
Deaths from COVID-19 may include cases where the doctor completing the death certificate diagnosed possible cases of COVID-19, for example, where this was based on relevant symptoms but no test for the virus was conducted. Deaths with a positive test are coded using the ICD-10 code U0.71 and those with suspected COVID-19 but no test has been conducted are coded with ICD10 U0.72.
Deaths from COVID-19 split by ICD-10 code from March to December 2020 can be found in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis.
We have also been producing Pre-existing conditions of people whose death was recorded with an underlying cause of COVID-19, deaths registered in 2020. This dataset can be found in section 7 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 that were due to COVID-19.
This publication will be updated quarterly. We have not yet finalised the analysis for the first quarter of 2021, this is likely to be published at the end of April 2021. COVID-19 deaths involving pre-existing conditions is split by broad age groups between 1-64 and 65+. We do not have the age split available for under 70's as you have requested.
Please see 'table 1a, row 28' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate.
There was a total of 9400 deaths in 2020 that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions. Of the 9400 deaths, 1549 deaths were registered for people aged between 1-64.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.