ONS Update 18th November 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) roundup 18 November 2020

We haven’t published any new analysis today, but yesterday we released provisional deaths registered in England and Wales for the week ending 6 November 2020. The main points include:

• There were 11,812 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 6 November 2020. This was 925 more deaths than in the previous week.
• In this week the number of deaths registered was 14.3% above the five-year average (1,481 deaths higher).
• Of the deaths registered  in this week, 1,937 mentioned “novel coronavirus (COVID-19)”, accounting for 16.4% of all deaths in England and Wales; this is an increase of 558 deaths compared with the previous week (when there were 1,379 deaths involving COVID-19, accounting for 12.7% of all deaths).
• Of the 1,937 deaths that involved COVID-19, 1,743 had this recorded as the underlying cause of death (90.0%); of the 2,267 deaths that involved Influenza and Pneumonia, 307 had this recorded as the underlying cause of death (13.5%).

Tomorrow, we’ll be publishing the latest monthly mortality analysis for England and Wales, October 2020, as well as early experimental statistics on the impact of the coronavirus on the UK economy and society. 

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