Coronavirus (COVID-19) Deaths
Due to changes in the collection and availability of data on COVID-19 this page will no longer be updated. The webpage will no longer be available as of 11 May 2023. On-going, reliable sources of data for COVID-19 are available via the COVID-19 dashboard, Office for National Statistics, and the UKHSA This page provides a weekly summary of data on deaths related to COVID-19 published by NHS England and the Office for National Statistics. More frequent reporting on COVID-19 deaths is now available here , alongside data on cases, hospitalisations, and vaccinations. This update contains data on deaths related to COVID-19 from: NHS England COVID-19 Daily Deaths - last updated on 28 June 2022 with data up to and including 27 June 2022. ONS weekly deaths by Local Authority - last updated on 16 August 2022 with data up to and including 05 August 2022. Summary notes about each these sources are provided at the end of this document. Note on interpreting deaths data: statistics from the available sources differ in definition, timing and completeness. It is important to understand these differences when interpreting the data or comparing between sources. Weekly Key Points An additional 24 deaths in London hospitals of patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 and an additional 5 where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate were announced in the week ending 27 June 2.
Trust score
How is this computed?Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).
- Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
- Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
- Metadata completenessweight 20%50/100
3 of 6 recommended metadata fields populated.
- License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
- Agent readinessweight 15%0/100
No machine-actionable signals detected yet.
Data schema (4 fields)
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| area_name | text | — |
| date | date | — |
| cause_of_death | text | — |
| deaths | int | — |
Schema inferred from the distribution file's first records 2 days ago. Column types are sampled estimates, not source-declared.
Sample data (5 records)
| area_name | date | cause_of_death | deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 2022-01-01 | COVID 19 | 0 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 2022-01-01 | Non COVID 19 | 0 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 2022-01-02 | COVID 19 | 0 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 2022-01-02 | Non COVID 19 | 0 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 2022-01-03 | COVID 19 | 0 |
Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
Verification Status
Using the API
Query examples
curl -sL 'https://data.london.gov.uk/download/2l19x/d5b73e41-0df8-4379-b460-9b92b7b80cbb/ons_deaths_cqc_by_la.csv' -o data.csvFull csv file download — the schema shown was inferred from the file's first records.