Derry has second lowest share of all COVID related deaths at 179 since start of pandemic

There were 179 COVID-19 related deaths in Derry/Strabane from the start of the pandemic to February 12.

This accounted for 6.7 per cent of the 2,673 COVID-19 deaths that were reported across the north from March 19, 2020, to February 12. The COVID-19 death rate has thus been lower than the Derry and Strabane district’s population share of eight per cent.

The only area with a lower share of coronavirus registered deaths is Fermanagh and Omagh (3.6 per cent).

The NISRA data show Derry/Strabane recorded a lower proportion of deaths overall during the COVID-19 pandemic (1,214; 7.3% of 16,628 deaths in the north) than its population share.

Fermanagh and Omagh (989; 5.9%) and Mid Ulster (1,059; 6.4%) were the only districts with lower shares of all deaths.

The NISRA analysis shows that there was a relatively small -0.6 per cent difference between the share of COVID-19 related deaths and all deaths in Derry and Strabane.

Three more people died in Derry and Strabane after testing positive with coronavirus in the week to Friday, February 12.

This amounted to 10 per cent of the 30 deaths that occurred in the local area that week.

One of the three COVID-19 related deaths occurred in local care homes.

Across the north as a whole the provisional number of total deaths registered in the week ending February 12, 2021 (week 6) was 382, 80 less than in week 5 of 2021 (462) and 50 more than the 5 year average (332).

Ninety-nine deaths mentioning COVID-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 6 of 2021, accounting for 25.9% of all deaths in that week and bringing the total number of Covid-19 related deaths registered from the start of the pandemic to 2,673 by February 12, 2021.

From the start of the pandemic (from the first COVID-19 related death being registered on March 19, 2020) to February 12, 2021, males and females accounted for similar proportions of all deaths registered (males: 49.9%, females: 50.1%) and COVID-19 related deaths registered (males: 50.5%; female 49.5%).

From March 19, 2020 (the start of the pandemic) to February 12, 2021, the 75 years and over age-group accounted for almost two-thirds (65.7%) of all deaths and over three-quarters (76.9%) of COVID-19 related deaths.

Over the period of the pandemic, Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon, Antrim & Newtownabbey, and Mid-Ulster Local Government Districts have higher proportions of COVID-19 related deaths (11.6%, 9.7% and 7.7% respectively) compared with their share of all deaths in the north (10.3%, 8.3% and 6.4% respectively).