This should be the biggest story in the world right now. At 20.9% we have an unmitigated global disaster on our hands.
And digging into the data further is cause for even greater alarm – excess deaths in ‘private homes’ were up an astonishing 28.7%
Main points
- In the week ending 31 March 2023 (Week 13), 11,584 deaths were registered in England and Wales; 634 of these deaths mentioned novel coronavirus (COVID-19), accounting for 5.5% of all deaths.
- This is a decrease in all deaths compared with the week ending 24 March 2023 (Week 12), when the number of all-cause deaths registered was 12,052; COVID-19 accounted for 624 of these deaths (5.2%).
- Of the 634 deaths involving COVID-19 in Week 13, 68.1% (432 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death, which was the same proportion as in Week 12.
- The number of deaths was above the five-year average in private homes (28.7% above, 732 excess deaths), hospitals (20.4% above, 869 excess deaths), care homes (14.8% above, 298 excess deaths) and other settings (14.3% above, 106 excess deaths).
- The number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 31 March 2023 (Week 13) was 13,137, which was 19.6% above the five-year average (2,156 more deaths); of these deaths, 729 involved COVID-19.