Revealing new data published on Covid deaths

A total of 651 deaths in laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases, reported with Covid-19 as the cause of death, have been notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre between April 1 and November 13, 2021.

Of those 408 persons had been vaccinated with at least one dose of virus vaccine prior to death.

Three hundred and thirty-three of those who died had an epidemiological date of Covid-19 infection 14 days or more after receiving both doses of a 2-dose regimen or 1 dose of a 1-dose regimen Covid-19 vaccine.

Therefore there were 333 breakthrough infections during the period in question.

Of these 333 individuals:

• 193 were male and 140 were female.

• 39 died in November 2021, 117 died in October 2021, 112 in September 2021, 54 in August 2021 and 11 between April 1 and July 31.

• Median age was 81 years (range: 35 to 100 years); Mean age was 80 years.

• 230 persons (69.1%) were reported on CIDR to have an underlying medical condition.