Read the 4th line of the website you referred to and I linked to. Covid deaths for week 17 = 459.
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1. Main points
- In the week ending 28 April 2023 (Week 17) 12,152 deaths were registered in England and Wales; 459 of these deaths mentioned novel coronavirus (COVID-19), accounting for 3.8% of all deaths.
- This is a decrease in all deaths compared with the week ending 21 April 2023 when the number of all-cause deaths registered was 12,420; COVID-19 accounted for 538 of these deaths (4.3%).
- Of the 459 deaths involving COVID-19 in Week 17, 65.6% (301 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death, which was a lower proportion when compared with Week 16 (66.5%).
- The number of deaths was above the five-year average in private homes (23.3% above, 646 excess deaths), hospitals (10.7% above, 521 excess deaths), care homes (8.4% above, 186 excess deaths) and other settings (14.3% above, 117 excess deaths).
- The number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 28 April 2023 (Week 17) was 13,690, which was 12.9% above the five-year average (1,569 excess deaths); of these deaths, 531 involved COVID-19.
- For more information on different measures of excess death and our current work around excess mortality, please read our blog post, How do we measure expected and excess deaths?.
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The numbers of deaths shown for England and Wales separately do not add up exactly to the numbers for England and Wales together. This is because the latter figures include deaths of non-residents in addition to those of residents of the two countries.
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2. Deaths registered in England and Wales
In the week ending 28 April 2023 (Week 17), 12,152 deaths were registered in England and Wales. Of these, 11,397 were registered in England and 732 were registered in Wales (Table 1).
Week 17 2023 | England and Wales
(including non-residents) | England | Wales |
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Total deaths
(all causes) | 12,152 | 11,397 | 732 |
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Total deaths above
5-year average | 1,469 | 1,417 | 47 |
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Percentage change
compared to 5-year average
(2017 to 2019 and 2021, 2022) | 13.8% | 14.2% | 6.9% |
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Deaths involving
COVID-19 | 459 | 436 | 23 |
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Table 1: Deaths registered in England and Wales, week ending 28 April (Week 17 2023)
So where do your figures come from then? And remember that those figures
involve Covid, not deaths as a result of Covid.