FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3155
You asked
Please supply the following :
- How many people in the UK ( or Wales, England, Scotland and Northen Ireland individually if that is how you present your information) have died within 28 days of receiving at least one dose of any of the covid 19 vaccines.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry regarding all cause deaths by vaccination status in the United Kingdom.
We are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
We hold the following analysis Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England which is an analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 and all cause deaths by vaccination status that occurred between 1 January and 24 September 2021 in England.
We have used 21 days after vaccination as this is when the vaccine starts to be effective.
| Age-standardised mortality rate per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval) | | |
|---|---|---|
| Vaccination status | Deaths involving COVID-19 | All deaths |
| Unvaccinated | 849.7 (840.3, 859.2) | 2,187.1 (2,172.2, 2,202.0) |
| Received only the first dose, less than 21 days ago | 192.4 (182.4, 202.4) | 811.9 (793.4, 830.4) |
| Received only the first dose, at least 21 days ago | 105.3 (102.8, 107.8) | 1,124.3 (1,115.9, 1,132.7) |
| Received the second dose, less than 21 days ago | 7.2 (6.1, 8.2) | 464.6 (455.8, 473.4) |
| Received the second dose, at least 21 days ago | 26.2 (25.4, 27.1) | 783.6 (779.1, 788 |
Download this table Table 1: Age-standardised mortality rates for all deaths and deaths involving COVID-19
.xls .csvThe data are for England only, as vaccinations data for Wales is not yet available to be linked to the mortality dataset and the Public Health Data Asset (PHDA) covers England only.
Table 6 of the same publication shows a comparison of the number of deaths within 21 days of first and second dose.
| Total deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccination status | Number of deaths PHDA | Number of deaths in full mortality dataset | Percentage in PHDA |
| Unvaccinated | 92,711 | 112,830 | 82.2 |
| Received only the first dose, less than 21 days ago | 16,634 | 18,971 | 87.7 |
| Received only the first dose, at least 21 days ago | 69,672 | 80,036 | 87.1 |
| Received the second dose, less than 21 days ago | 10,850 | 12,344 | 87.9 |
| Received the second dose, at least 21 days ago | 132,825 | 150,557 | 88.2 |
| Total | 322,692 | 374,738 | 86.1 |
| COVID-19 deaths | |||
| Vaccination status | Number of deaths PHDA | Number of deaths in full mortality dataset | Percentage in PHDA |
| Unvaccinated | 34,474 | 40,966 | 84.2 |
| Received only the first dose, less than 21 days ago | 3,880 | 4,413 | 87.9 |
| Received only the first dose, at least 21 days ago | 6,663 | 7,605 | 87.6 |
| Received the second dose, less than 21 days ago | 171 | 196 | 87.2 |
| Received the second dose, at least 21 days ago | 4,308 | 4,908 | 87.8 |
| Total | 49,496 | 58,088 | 85.2 |
Download this table Table 6: Comparison of deaths by vaccination status included in the Public Health Data Asset (PHDA) and the full mortality dataset, age 10
.xls .csvA further release is provisionally scheduled for December, final date of publication will be announced on Release Calendar.
For further information on your request, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
UK Health Security Agency also publish a weekly surveillance report which looks at the impact on hospitalisations, infection, vaccine effectiveness and mortality.