You asked
FOI/2021/2409
Please can you confirm the number of people who have died following a COVID-19 vaccination under the following categories?
Elderly and/or underlying health condition
Thrombocytopenia
Other - when other, please specify what caused the death e.g Road Traffic Accident
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Deaths after receipt of COVID-19 Vaccine
You can find the number of deaths involving COVID-19 (not restricted to first or second vaccination) in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis dataset, these include figures for deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination. There are currently 2 deaths registered with the aligning ICD codes for this. However, should this change, they will be updated in this table. This publication is due to be updated in June 2021.
We are unable to provide any further disaggregation of this data due to the small numbers involved as it would be considered personal information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses or persons can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.