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Deaths involving COVID-19 Week 36: 06 - 12 September 2021

Deaths involving COVID-19 Week 36: 06 - 12 September 2021

Wednesday, 15 Sep 2021
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As at 12 September, 10,688 deaths have been registered in Scotland where the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was mentioned on the death certificate, according to statistics published today by National Records of Scotland (NRS).

In the week 06 – 12 September, 76 deaths were registered that mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate, an increase of 18 deaths from the previous week.

12 people who died were aged under 65, 13 were of people aged 65-74 and 51 were over 75. 48 people who died were male and 28 were female.

There were 8 deaths in both Glasgow City and in North Lanarkshire, 7 deaths in South Lanarkshire, 6 deaths in Dundee City, and 5 deaths in City of Edinburgh. In total, 26 council areas had at least one death involving COVID-19 last week.

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said:

“Today’s NRS figures show that there were 76 deaths in Scotland last week where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, an increase of 18 deaths on the previous week.”

“Between March 2020 and August 2021, 93% of people who died with COVID had at least one pre-existing condition, the most common condition being dementia or Alzheimer’s disease."

The publication Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland is available on the NRS website. Breakdowns of these figures by date, underlying cause of death, and location can be found under “Data and Charts”.

Graph showing deaths per week involving Covid-19

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