You asked

​How many people within the Sheffield area have died from covid-19 only and with no other underlying health conditions. Also evidence of people who have died within South Yorkshire from covid-19 alone without any underlying health issues.

We said

Thank you for your request.

In order to provide you with the number of deaths from COVID-19 alone at the specific geographies you require, we would need to create bespoke analysis, which we are not obligated to do under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.Furthermore, if we were to create this analysis, we would be unable to disclose the information, as this would produce very low counts which would be disclosive. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) makes it an offence to release personal information. Personal information is any information held by the Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. This includes individuals that are deceased.

However, you may find the following analysis useful:

Deaths involving COVID-19 with no underlying cause

We have been producing Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales in the response to COVID-19. This publication provides a greater insight into the leading underlying causes of death groups for deaths occurring in England and Wales between March and 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. Where only COVID-19 was recorded on the death certificate, or COVID-19 and subsequent conditions caused by COVID-19 were recorded, we refer to these deaths as having "No pre-existing conditions".

Of the 50,335 deaths that occurred in March to June 2020 involving COVID-19 in England and Wales, 45,859 (91.1%) had at least one pre-existing condition, while 4,476 (8.9%) had none. COVID-19 deaths where there was no pre-existing condition between March and June 2020 are included below, this can be found on table 5.

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

This publication is currently paused, however due to the increase in COVID-19 deaths, we are looking into publishing this information again in the future with data from July 2020 onwards.

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. Leading causes is also available on table 11 and includes figures for the five-year average.

Deaths involving COVID-19, by local authority and health board

We have published Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and health board. Mortality data is available for Sheffield here. In the tables labelled 'Registrations -- Pivot table' and 'Occurrences -- Pivot table', you can see how the mortality figures vary week on week, using the drop-down toggle and filtering on the week number and cause of death options.

For clarity: The filter/drop-down on the pivot tables for 'All-causes' does not contain COVID-19 deaths. By default, both options are ticked. If you were to untick the COVID-19 option it would deduct from the total deaths, leaving you with deaths from all other causes. Additionally, if both were ticked and you unticked All-causes, it would leave you with the total number of COVID-19 deaths.

The following tables have been taken from this publication and provide the total number of deaths in Sheffield in 2020 and so far in 2021:

We also provide a facility via customise my data, where deaths can also be filtered by week and location.

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