• In the week ending 14 January 2022 (Week 2), 13,311 deaths were registered in England and Wales; this was 1,049 more deaths than the previous week (Week 1) and 6.1% below the five-year average (872 fewer deaths).
• The number of deaths registered in England in the week ending 14 January 2022 (Week 2) was 12,399; this was 929 more deaths than the previous week (Week 1) and 6.6% below the five-year average (871 fewer deaths).
• The number of deaths registered in Wales in the week ending 14 January 2022 (Week 2) was 884; this was 108 more deaths than the previous week (Week 1) and equal to the five-year average.
• Compared with the 2015 to 2019 five-year average (as opposed to the new five-year average used in the previous main points), deaths in England and Wales were 3.7% below average (511 fewer deaths), in England were 4.1% below average (534 fewer deaths) and in Wales were 3.3% above average (28 more deaths).
• Of the deaths registered in Week 2 in England and Wales, 1,382 mentioned “novel coronavirus (COVID-19)”, accounting for 10.4% of all deaths; this was an increase in the number of deaths compared with Week 1 (922 deaths, 7.5% of all deaths).
• The number of deaths involving COVID-19 in England increased to 1,308 in Week 2, compared with 857 in Week 1; for Wales, deaths involving COVID-19 increased to 69 in Week 2, compared with 61 in Week 1.
• Of the 1,382 deaths involving COVID-19, 77.4% (1,070 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death in Week 2 compared with 77.2% in Week 1.
• Using the most up-to-date data we have available, the number of deaths from the week ending 13 March 2020 to the week ending 14 January 2022 was 1,102,564 in England and Wales; of these, 1,033,245 were recorded in England and 67,857 were recorded in Wales.
• From the week ending 13 March 2020 to the week ending 14 January 2022, the number of excess deaths above the five-year average in England and Wales was 126,831; of these, 121,596 were recorded in England and 6,520 were recorded in Wales.
• In Week 2 in England and Wales, the number of deaths was above the five-year average in private homes (18.3% above, 587 excess deaths) but below the five-year average in hospitals (14.9% below, 1,044 fewer deaths), care homes (11.3% below, 345 fewer deaths) and other settings (7.7% below, 69 fewer deaths).
• The number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 14 January 2022 was 15,257, which was 5.3% below the five-year average (859 fewer deaths); of the deaths registered in the UK in Week 2, 1,557 involved COVID-19, which was 534 more than in Week 1.

This table includes provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, by age, sex and region, in the latest weeks for which data are available. Includes the most up-to-date figures available for deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19).

For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to mortality statistics, please see our User guide to mortality statistics.

For mortality data for other UK countries please see statistics on deaths in Scotland and statistics on deaths in Northern Ireland.