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UKHSA data series on deaths in people with COVID-19: technical summary

Summary of the UKHSA data series on deaths in people with COVID-19, outlining what the changes mean and how the data compares to other COVID-19 death data series.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 29 April 2020
• Last updated: 4 February 2022
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  1. 4 February 2022

     Added 'Technical summary: underlying data'.

  2. 1 February 2022

     Added technical summary and linked to previous Public Health England data series.

  3. 7 October 2020

     Added note on ceasing daily publication of the COVID-19 related deaths time series spreadsheet.

  4. 6 October 2020

     Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  5. 5 October 2020

     Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  6. 4 October 2020

     Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

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  9. 1 October 2020

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  10. 30 September 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

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      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  25. 11 September 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  26. 10 September 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  27. 7 September 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  28. 6 September 2020

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  29. 5 September 2020

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  30. 4 September 2020

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      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  35. 30 August 2020

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  36. 29 August 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

  37. 28 August 2020

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  38. 27 August 2020

      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

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      Updated related deaths time series spreadsheet with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

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      Related deaths time series spreadsheet updated with latest figures.

  51. 12 August 2020

      Added 12 August update.

  52. 23 June 2020

      Added 23 June 2020 update.

  53. 1 June 2020

      Report updated for the incorporation of pillar 2 testing data.

  54. 29 April 2020

      First published.

Documents

Technical summary: UKHSA data series on deaths in people with COVID-19

Ref: UKHSA publication gateway number GOV-11236

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Technical summary: underlying data

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Details

This document summarises the UKHSA data series on deaths in people with coronavirus (COVID-19) which started on 29 April 2020.

This data series provides a daily and cumulative count of all deaths in people who had a laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 test.

This document explains the UKHSA data series, what it includes, details of the data sources, how the numbers are generated, and how it compares to previous data series and weekly reports of COVID-19 death registrations reported by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

COVID-19 related deaths time series

Daily updates for data on numbers of deaths among persons with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 in England as per the technical summary above are now available in the COVID-19 dashboard.

The daily spreadsheet will no longer be updated from 6 October 2020.

Previous data series were published by Public Health England.