176 COVID related deaths in Derry and Strabane

Eight more people died in Derry and Strabane after testing positive with coronavirus in the week to Friday, February 5.

This amounted to 23 per cent of the 35 deaths that occurred in the local area that week. Two of the eight COVID-19 related deaths occurred in local care homes.

The provisional number of total deaths registered in the north in the week ending February 5, 2021 (week 5) was 437, 37 less than in week 3 of 2021 (474) and 78 more than the five year average (359).

In total 126 deaths mentioning COVID-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 5 of 2021, accounting for 27.3% of all deaths in that week and bringing the total number of COVID-19 related deaths registered from the start of the pandemic to 2,574 by February 5, 2021.

From the start of the pandemic (from the first COVID-19 related death being registered on March 19, 2020 to February 5, 2021, males and females accounted for similar proportions of all deaths registered (males: 49.8%, females: 50.2%) and COVID-19 related deaths registered (males: 50.3%; female 49.7%).

From March 19, 2020 (the start of the pandemic) to February 5, 2021, the 75 years and over age-group accounted for almost two-thirds (65.8%) of all deaths and over three-quarters (77.2%) of COVID-19 related deaths.

Over the period of the pandemic, Antrim & Newtownabbey, and Mid-Ulster Local Government Districts have higher proportions of COVID-19 related deaths (9.9% and 7.7% respectively) compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (8.3% and 6.4% respectively).