You asked
FOI/2021/2483
Please can you send me the following information:
Exactly how many people in the UK between ages 0-14, 15-25, 26- 36, 37-44 , 45-55, 56-66 and 67 and above without underlying co- morbidities, have died of Covid-19 from March 2020 - June 2021? Please send answer according to requested age group.
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Thank you for your request.
The mortality data published by ONS are derived from the formal process of death registration. We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
Deaths from COVID-19 may include cases where the doctor completing the death certificate diagnosed possible cases of COVID-19, for example, where this was based on relevant symptoms but no test for the virus was conducted. Deaths with a positive test are coded using the ICD10 code U0.71 and those with suspected COVID-19 but no test has been conducted are coded with ICD10 U0.72.
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.
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.
This publication will be updated quarterly. COVID-19 deaths involving pre-existing conditions is split by broad age groups between 1-64 and 65+. We do not hold the data split by the age groups you have requested.
There was a total of 9400 (0-64: 1549 / 65 and over: 7851) deaths in England and Wales 2020 and 6483 (0-64: 1560/ 65 and over: 4923) deaths registered in quarter 1 of 2021 that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions.
We have not yet finalised the analysis for quarter 2, this is expected to be published towards the end of July.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.