Deaths from COVID-19 with no pre-existing conditions for the whole of the UK

Dyddiad y datganiad:
22 April 2021

You asked

Under the FOI act please can you provide me with the following information.

How many people have actually died from Covid-19 alone in the UK with no underlying health issues.

Deaths from COVID only.

Please can you reply with the actual number.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Therefore, we do not hold the requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to request this data for Scotland and Northern Ireland, NRS and NISRA can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

However, we do hold this information for England and Wales. This can be found in Table 2 of the following dataset, Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics, and in the following tables:

England
Number of PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS	January to March 2020	January to March 2020	April to June 2020	April to June 2020	July to September 2020	July to September 2020	October to December 2020	October to December 2020	January to December 2020	January to December 2020
Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years
0	27	137	949	4,620	59	213	406	2,238	1,441	7,208
1	67	336	1,329	11,712	70	433	588	5,615	2,054	18,096
2	44	366	1,085	10,219	47	447	507	5,754	1,683	16,786
3	46	298	655	6,734	28	338	322	4,123	1,051	11,493
4	12	130	317	3,147	15	163	134	1,907	478	5,347
5 or more	11	91	160	1,915	7	133	78	1,093	256	3,232
Proportion with no pre-existing conditions	13.0%	10.1%	21.1%	12.0%	26.1%	12.3%	20.0%	10.8%	20.7%	11.6%
Mean number of pre-existing conditions	1.92	2.20	1.70	1.97	1.55	2.17	1.73	2.09	1.71	2.02

Download this table England

.xls .csv

Wales:
Number of PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS	January to March 2020	January to March 2020	April to June 2020	April to June 2020	July to September 2020	July to September 2020	October to December 2020	October to December 2020	January to December 2020	January to December 2020
Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years	Aged 65 and over	Aged 1-64 years
0	1	7	56	339	2	12	49	285	108	643
1	3	23	59	653	4	28	50	617	116	1,321
2	0	15	51	470	2	27	38	477	91	989
3	0	6	25	294	1	19	24	275	50	594
4	0	3	11	119	1	9	9	143	21	274
5 or more	1	4	5	73	0	4	6	72	12	153
Proportion with no pre-existing conditions	20.0%	12.1%	27.1%	17.4%	20.0%	12.1%	27.8%	15.2%	27.1%	16.2%
Mean number of pre-existing conditions	1.80	1.79	1.49	1.73	1.50	2.05	1.50	1.81	1.50	1.77

Download this table Wales:

.xls .csv

This publication will be updated on 22 April 2021 with data for January to March 2021.

Also, Figure 2 of our Deaths registered weekly bulletin shows the number of deaths due to COVID-19 and the number of deaths involving COVID-19 with "due to" referring only to deaths where COVID-19 was recorded as the underlying cause of death and "involving" referring to deaths that had COVID-19 mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, whether as an underlying cause or not.

Please see the 'download data' option at the bottom of Figure 2.

Here are the summed totals for COVID-19 up to week ending 9 April 2021:

Deaths involving COVID-19 (underlying or contributory cause): 137,058
Deaths due to COVID-19 (underlying cause): 122,788

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