160 COVID-19 related deaths in Derry and Strabane

Fourteen more people died in Derry and Strabane after testing positive with coronavirus in the week to Friday, January 22.

This amounted to 31 per cent of the 45 deaths that occurred in the local area that week.

Four of the 14 COVID-19 related deaths occurred in local care homes.

The provisional number of total deaths registered in the north in the week ending January 22, 2021 (week 3) was 474, 31 more than in week 2 of 2021 and 99 more than the 5 year average.

There were 182 deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate registered in week 3 of 2021, accounting for 38.4% of all deaths in that week and bringing the total number of Covid-19 related deaths registered from the start of the pandemic to 2,311 by January 22, 2021.

From the start of the pandemic (from the first Covid-19 related death being registered on March 19, 2020 to January 22, 2021, males and females accounted for similar proportions of all deaths registered (males: 49.7%, females: 50.3%) and Covid-19 related deaths registered (males: 50.1%; female 49.9%).

From March 19, 2020 to January 22, 2021, the 75 years and over age-group accounted for more than three-fifths (65.9%) of all deaths and over three-quarters (77.4%) of Covid-19 related deaths.

Those with an address in Belfast LGD accounted for 476 (20.6%) of the 2,311 Covid-19 related deaths registered up to January 22, 2021.