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Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 19 May 2023
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- Death registrations in Week 20 ending 19 May 2023 are affected by the bank holiday in Week 19 ending 12 May 2023.
- In the week ending 19 May 2023 (Week 20) 11,654 deaths were registered in England and Wales; 322 of these deaths mentioned novel coronavirus (COVID-19), accounting for 2.8% of all deaths.
- This is an increase in all deaths compared with the week ending 12 May 2023, when the number of all-cause deaths registered was 10,367; COVID-19 accounted for 309 of these deaths (3.0%).

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