You asked
Can you please inform me of how many COVID-19 deaths, with no underlying health conditions, in the age group 30-40 years have been recorded in England since March 2020 to June 2021.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Our mortality data are derived from the formal process of death registration.
We hold the following analysis, showing deaths from COVID-19 with no pre-existing conditions in England and Wales in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021: 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.
Please navigate to 'table 1a, row 28 (2020) and row 29 (2021)' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of death, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales. Table 1b represents these figures for England only.
There were a total of 9,400 (0-64: 1549 / 65 and over: 7851) deaths in England and Wales 2020 and 6483 (0-64: 1560/ 65 and over: 4923) deaths registered in quarter 1 of 2021 that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions.
This publication will be updated quarterly, with the next update expected at the end of July 2021.
This analysis is split into two broad age groups, between 1-64 and 65+. Unfortunately, we do not hold analysis split by the requested age groups. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create a bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
Please note, 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 ICD10 code U0.71 and those with suspected COVID-19 but no test has been conducted are coded with ICD10 U0.72.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.