You asked

How many Sars-Covid-19 reported deaths in the United Kingdom, can only be attributed to Covid-19 specifically, and no other cause of death applies, and no presence of other existing medical conditions.

I would like this information to be from 1 February 2020 to 2 November 2020.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales. This is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

We use the term "due to COVID-19" when referring only to deaths where that illness was recorded as the underlying cause of death. This information can be found on a weekly basis in Figure 2 of our Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisionalpublication, which is updated every Tuesday.

Data is currently available from 27 December 2020 (Week 1) to 6 November (week 45):

We have been producing the following publication in the response to COVID-19: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales. Tables 5, 6a, 6b, and 6c of this publication provide COVID-19 death figures broken down by underlying health condition in England and Wales between March and June 2020. Please also see the following information, showing the number and percentage of deaths with and without pre-existing health conditions from March to June 2020.

We define a pre-existing condition here as the last health condition mentioned on the first part of the death certificate when it came before the coronavirus (COVID-19) or was an independent contributory factor in the death, mentioned in part II.

COVID-19 deaths with underlying health conditions

Figures for COVID-19 deaths with underlying health conditions are available on Table 5 of the above publication. Main pre-existing causes are grouped using the ONS Leading Causes of Deaths list and International Classification of Disease version 10 blocks of causes.

  • With pre-existing condition: England and Wales - 45,859
  • With pre-existing condition: England - 43,640
  • With pre-existing condition: Wales - 2156

COVID-19 deaths with no underlying health condition

Figures for COVID-19 deaths with no underlying health conditions are also available on Table 5, this means where no other underlying condition was listed on the death certificate.

  • No pre-existing condition: England and Wales - 4476
  • No pre-existing condition: England - 4169
  • No pre-existing condition: Wales - 294

We are no longer publishing monthly COVID-19 deaths with details around the death such as pre-existing conditions or no underlying cause. This is due to the decrease in the number of COVID-19 related deaths. Therefore, we are unable to provide you with COVID deaths with no underlying/by underlying health condition for July to November 2020. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create a bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.

However, you can find provisional monthly death registration data for England and Wales, broken down by sex, age and country are now available in this monthly publication: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales. This publication contains data from July onwards and includes deaths due to COVID-19 and leading causes of death.

If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk