FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3569
You asked
Please supply total deaths in England and Wales from COVID-19 with no underlying causes.
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.
COVID-19 deaths with no pre-existing conditions
For mortality figures where COVID-19 was the sole cause of death, please see: 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 quarterly data for 2021, for deaths that were due to COVID-19.
Please see 'table 1a, row 30' (2020) and 'table 1a, row 29 (Q1 2021)' and 'table 1 row 28 (Q2,3 &4 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+.
Please see below for death registrations for 2020 and 2021 (provisional) that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions, England and Wales, aged 0-64 and 65 and over.
2020: 9432 (0-64: 1557 / 65 and over: 7875)
2021 Q1: 6483 (0-64: 1560 / 65 and over: 4923)
2021 Q2: 346 (0-64: 153 / 65 and over: 193)
2021 Q3: 1142 (0-64: 512 / 65 and over: 630)
2021 Q4: 1536 (0-64: 568/ 65 and over: 968)
We would also draw your attention to our recently published blog: To say only 17,000 people have died from COVID-19 is highly misleading | National Statistical (ons.gov.uk)
If you would like to discuss this enquiry further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.