THERE has been a further fall in the number of Covid-19-related deaths registered in the North of Ireland.
The government statistics agency, Nisra, said in the week up to December 31, the virus was mentioned on the death certificates of 14 people – 16 fewer than the previous week.
It brings the total number of deaths registered by the agency to 4,013.
The Department of Health’s total up to last Friday, based on a positive test being recorded, was 2,928.
Nisra’s figures are higher, because it records mentions of the virus on death certificates, where it may or may not have been confirmed by way of a test.
The Department of Health has recorded 190 deaths (mostly in hospitals) in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
This is the second lowest number of deaths from all 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
Under Nisra’s collection of data, it records 264 deaths within the Derry and Strabane Council area.
Of the agency’s measure, more than two-thirds of Covid-19-related deaths have occurred in hospital (69.7%).
There have been 1,141 care home resident deaths, accounting for 28.4% of all Covid-19-related deaths.
People aged 75 and over accounted for 73.5% of the 4,013 Covid-19-related deaths registered between 19 March 2020 and 31 December 2021.
The provisional number of deaths from all causes registered in the week ending December 31 was 347.
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon and Mid Ulster council areas have had higher proportions of Covid-19-related deaths (12.4% and 8.1% respectively) compared with their share of all deaths in the North of Ireland (10.4% and 6.6% respectively), according to the Nisra figures.
The statistics also show Ards and North Down and Fermanagh and Omagh council areas both have relatively low shares of registered Covid-19-related deaths (both 2.2 percentage points lower respectively than their share of all deaths).
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