You asked
On your website you mention "Of the deaths registered in Week 2, 7,245 mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)", the third-highest weekly number recorded during the pandemic and an increase of 1,188 deaths compared with Week 1."
And
"Of the 7,245 deaths involving COVID-19, 6,510 had this recorded as the underlying cause of death (89.9%)."
Can you please provide a list of what the other causes of death were listed as on those death certificates.
Can you also provide specifically of those 7245 deaths, how many also had a pre existing condition?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
In order to provide you with a list of other causes of death listed or deaths involving a pre-existing condition within this specific week of 2021, we would need to create 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, the dataset accompanying the following publication, Deaths Registered Weekly, provides a breakdown of deaths for week 2 detailing deaths involving respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia, and COVID-19, which may be of interest.
| Week number | 2 |
|---|---|
| Week ended | 15-Jan-21 |
| Deaths by cause¹²³⁴ | |
| Note: deaths may be counted in more than one cause category, for example a death may have an underlying cause of COVID-19 but also have influenza and pneumonia mentioned as a contributory cause of death. | |
| Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) | |
| Deaths involving respiratory disease (any mention on the death certificate) | 7,497 |
| of which, deaths due to respiratory disease (underlying cause) | 1,199 |
| Influenza and pneumonia (J08-J18) | |
| Deaths involving influenza and pneumonia (any mention on the death certificate) | 5,273 |
| of which, deaths due to influenza and pneumonia (underlying cause) | 381 |
| COVID-19 (U07.1, U07.2) | |
| Deaths involving COVID-19 (any mention on the death certificate) | 7,245 |
| of which, deaths due to COVID-19 (underlying cause) | 6,510 |
Download this table Weekly provisional figures on deaths registered in England and Wales, for selected causes of death
.xls .csvNotes:
1. Counts of deaths by underlying cause exclude neonatal deaths (aged under 28 days). Counts of deaths "involving" a cause (any mention on the death certificate) include neonatal deaths. More information on cause of death coding for infant deaths is available in the User Guide to Mortality Statistics
2. Coding of deaths by cause for the latest week is not yet complete.
3. For deaths registered from 1st January 2020, cause of death is coded to the ICD-10 classification using MUSE 5.5 software. Previous years were coded to IRIS 4.2.3, further information about the change in software is available.
4. Deaths "involving" a cause include all deaths where the cause was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, as a main cause of death or a contributory cause. Deaths "due to" a cause are a subset of "involving", and only include deaths where the cause was the underlying (main) cause of death.
6. These figures represent death registrations, there can be a delay between the date a death occurred and the date a death was registered. More information can be found in our impact of registration delays release.
7. Figures in this table are added for the current week; data for previous weeks are not updated.