Covid:19: NI sees lowest weekly deaths since October
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Northern Ireland has recorded the lowest weekly number of coronavirus-related deaths registered since October 2020.
The NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) said the virus was mentioned on the death certificates of three people in the week ending 7 May.
It has said it will now only publish a weekly explanatory bulletin when five or more are recorded in a week.
The move follows weeks of low death numbers.
The information will still be available in table form.
The figure of three registered deaths is a decrease of five on the previous week's toll.
It brings the agency's total of Covid-19 related registered deaths to 2,960.
The Department of Health's total for the same date, based on a positive test result being recorded, was 2,147.
Nisra counts deaths by recording mentions of the virus on death certificates, where it may or may not have been confirmed by way of a test, which is why Nisra's figures are higher than the department.
On the agency's measure, there've been 1,959 Covid-19 related deaths in hospital, including the deaths of 237 care home residents.
Taking that figure, and the 772 who died in care homes, it means care home residents now account for just over a third (34.1%) of all Covid-19 related deaths.
Covid-19 related deaths were also recorded in hospices (0.5%) and other residential locations (7.3%).
People aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (76.1%) between 19 March 2020 and 7 May 2021.
Armagh City Banbridge & Craigavon (12.1%) and Mid-Ulster (8.3%) Local Government Districts have now recorded higher proportions of all Covid-19 related deaths, compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (10.3% and 6.5% respectively).
The provisional number of deaths from all causes registered in the week ending 7 May was 270.
That is 21 less than the previous week, and 4 less than the 5-year average for the time of year of 274.
- Published13 May 2021
- Published13 May 2021
