Excess deaths and lack of data

More data still required on the nature of the excess deaths

UK Zoe data

The report and the data files

https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/covid-public-data

1.48% in England (1 in 65 people)

1.49% in Wales (1 in 65 people)

1.86% in Northern Ireland (1 in 55 people)

1.59% in Scotland (1 in 65 people)

Less than 4 in 10 patients in hospital in England with COVID-19 in October 2022 were being treated primarily for COVID-19

Deaths and excess deaths

Week ending 18 November 2022

471 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in the UK

Deaths involving COVID-19 accounted for 3.6% of all deaths in the UK

(a fall from 4.4% in the previous week)

A total of 13,236 deaths were registered in the UK

7.7% above the five-year average

(941 excess deaths)

The rate of death involving COVID-19 was higher for those with obesity than those without obesity

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights

Those who reported symptoms with their first infection were less likely to be reinfected

2.1 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 1 October 2022