You asked
Please could you provide age and pre-existing conditions data for registered delta variant deaths.
We said
Thank you for your request.
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.
Unfortunately, we do not hold the information you have requested. We do not collect data on COVID-19 variants as this information is not provided to us on the death certificate. You may be able to obtain information on COVID variants from NHS Digital, they can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.
ONS have been producing 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. This dataset provides a greater insight into the leading pre-existing cause of death groups, for deaths occurring in England and Wales, in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 that were due to COVID-19. However, this is not based on COVID variant.
Please see 'table 1a, row 28 (2020) and row 29 (2021)' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales. Table 1b represents these figures for England and table 1c figures are for Wales.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.