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Deaths involving COVID-19 – Week 45: 2 – 8 November 2020

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As at 8 November, a total of 4,856 deaths have been registered in Scotland where the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was mentioned on the death certificate, according to statistics published by National Records of Scotland (NRS) today.

Between 2 – 8 November, 206 deaths were registered that mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate, an increase of 38 from the previous week.

143 deaths were in hospitals; 53 in care homes and 9 were at home or in non-institutional settings.

To place these statistics in context, the total number of all-cause deaths registered in the week 2 โ€“ 8 November was 1,238, 12% more than the average over the previous five years.

Updated analysis, covering the period from March-October, on mortality by pre-existing conditions, urban and rural areas, place of death and deprivation has also been published today and show:

Of those who died with COVID-19 between March and October, 92% had at least one pre-existing condition. 

The most common main pre-existing condition was dementia and Alzheimerโ€™s disease, accounting for 30% of all deaths involving COVID-19.

After adjusting for age, people living in large urban areas were over 4 times as likely to die with COVID-19 as those in remote rural locations.

West Dunbartonshire had the highest age-standardised death rate of all council areas, followed by Glasgow City, Midlothian and Inverclyde.

This monthโ€™s report also includes an update to the ethnicity analysis first published in July, which covers the same time period (March to mid-June) but includes additional ethnicity data gathered by registrars.

It concludes that deaths amongst people of South Asian ethnicity were more likely to involve COVID-19 than deaths of people with a White Scottish ethnicity.

The analysis also concluded that for the other ethnic groups, where an analysis could be performed, there was no evidence that the likelihood of a COVID-19 related death was different to people of a White Scottish ethnicity.

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said:

โ€œEvery death from this virus represents loss and grief for families across the country.

โ€œThe latest analysis continues to show that people living in the most deprived areas were over two times as likely to die with COVID-19 as those living in the least deprived areas.

โ€œThis monthโ€™s analysis includes updated analysis by ethnicity, the results of which are broadly in line with the initial analysis published in July.โ€

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