FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2721
You asked
Please supply the amount of reported deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine please in the UK as a whole.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
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 obtain this data for Scotland and Northern Ireland, NRS and NISRA can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
Deaths involving the COVID-19 vaccination
You can find the number of deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination (not restricted to first or second 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). The latest data available is June 2021. However, should this change, they will be updated in this table. This publication is due to be updated in August 2021.
You may also be interested to know that 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 28 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 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.