The Public Health England statistics demonstrate how ‘excess deaths’ have differed from a pre-pandemic year. They show that County Durham recorded a 22.8 per cent increase on previous years, with a 19 per cent increase in Darlington and 10.3 per cent in North Yorkshire. The data compares the number of deaths registered during the last year with how many were predicted based on previous mortality rates. County Durham saw 6,949 deaths from any cause registered between March 21 last year – just days before the UK’s first lockdown – and March 19 this year. That was 1,288 more than the 5,661 predicted based on the previous five years. It means there were 22.8 per cent more deaths than expected – higher than the England average of 20 per cent.
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Huge impact of Covid on excess death toll in the region
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