Weekly deaths bulletin – week ending 8 October 2021

Date published: 15 October 2021

The tables and bulletin containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 8 October 2021 were released at 9.30am today.

Key points  

Date of registration 

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 8 October 2021 (week 40) was 330, 50 less than the previous week (380) and 16 more than the 2016-2020 5 year average (314).
• Twenty-eight deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 40 of 2021, accounting for 8.5% of all deaths registered in that week. This is a decrease of 20 from the previous week. The weekly total is similar to the level last seen at the beginning of August 2021 (week 31) when 31 deaths had Covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate. The total number of Covid-19 related deaths registered from the start of the pandemic was 3,501 by 8 October 2021.
• From the start of the pandemic (from the first Covid-19 related death being registered on 19 March 2020) to 8 October 2021, males and females accounted for relatively equal proportions of all deaths registered (males: 50.2%, females: 49.8%), however, a slightly higher proportion of males accounted for Covid-19 related deaths registered (males: 52.4%; female 47.6%).
• Since the beginning of the pandemic to 1 October 2021, the 75 years and over age-group accounted for almost two-thirds (65.0%) of all deaths and three-quarters (74.6%) of Covid-19 related deaths.
• Over the period of the pandemic, Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon and Mid-Ulster Local Government Districts have had higher proportions of Covid-19 related deaths (12.4% and 8.3% respectively) compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (10.3% and 6.6% respectively).

Covid-19 deaths based on date of death

• 3,512 deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate have occurred in total from 18 March 2020 to 8 October 2021 (including those registered up to and including 13 October). The comparative number of deaths reported by the Department of Health (DoH) to 8 October was 2,585 (see page 16 for definitions).
• Thirty Covid-19 related deaths occurred in week ending 8 October, a decrease of three from the previous week.

Of these 3,512 deaths involving Covid-19, 2,389 (68.0%) occurred in hospital3, 843 (24.0%) occurred in care homes, 14 (0.4%) occurred in hospices and 266 (7.6%) occurred at residential addresses or another location.

A weekly deaths dashboard is also available.

The tables and other related documents are available from the weekly deaths webpage

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