FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3002
You asked
Please supply information on anyone under the age of 40 with no pre-existing health conditions that have died of COVID-19.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry requesting deaths for the under 40s age group, involving COVID-19 and no pre-existing conditions in England and Wales.
To fulfil this request for data for those aged under 40, we would need to create a bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
However, we have been producing pre-existing conditions of people whose death was recorded with an underlying cause of COVID-19, this dataset can be found in section 8 of the Monthly mortality analysis bulletin.
This dataset provides a greater insight into the leading pre-existing cause of death groups, for deaths occurring in England and Wales, in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 that were due to COVID-19.
Please see 'table 1a, row 28 (2020) and row 29 (2021)' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales.
Table 1b represents these figures for England and table 1c figures are for Wales.
This publication will be updated quarterly. COVID-19 deaths involving pre-existing conditions is split by broad age groups between 1-64 and 65+.
For those aged between 1-64, there was a total of 1549 deaths in England and Wales 2020, 1560 deaths registered in quarter 1 of 2021 and 153 registered in quarter 2 of 2021 that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions.
If you have any further enquiries about your request, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.