FOI/2021/2828
You asked
Please supply information on how many people have died in England and Wales within 24 hours after having the coronavirus vaccination where the coronavirus vaccine has related to the cause of death. Please supply statistics from the first date a person was vaccinated for coronavirus in England and Wales until present date (09/08/2021).
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, we do not hold the requested information regarding deaths within 24 hours of the coronavirus vaccination where the COVID-19 vaccine has contributed to the cause of death. This would require complex linking of mortality data to vaccination data and would therefore need to be created as 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.
However, you can find the number of deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis dataset. There are currently 4 deaths registered with the aligning ICD-10 codes for this (U12.9). Please note, this data is not restricted to those who have died within 24 hours of the vaccination. Should this figure change, it will be updated in this table. The latest data available is July 2021. This publication is due to be updated with August data in September 2021.
In case it is of interest, we are currently working on analysis on a number of aspects of the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and mortality, including:
Information regarding deaths after 21 days of vaccination, from any cause.
Information regarding deaths involving or due to COVID-19 after receiving COVID-19 vaccination.
The provisional release date for these publications is 13 September 2021. Once publication dates are finalised, they will be announced on our Release Calendar.
If you have any further enquiries, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.