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The number of weekly coronavirus-related deaths in Northern Ireland has increased for the first time since mid-June.
The virus was mentioned in the death certificates of seven people until Friday, July 24, according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra).
That’s five more than the week before.
Using the measure based on information from Nisra’s death certificate, there have been 853 Covid-19-related deaths as of last Friday.
The figure based on positive evidence from the Health Department for the same date was 556.
NISRA said there have been 448 hospital deaths (52.5%).
Eighty of those people normally resided in nursing homes, a figure that has not changed since last week.
Taking that number and the 349 who died in nursing homes, it means that nursing home residents account for half of all Covid-19 related deaths.
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Week ending July 24
Northern Ireland Agency for Statistics and Research (Nisra)
Eight people have died in hospices (0.9%) and 49 in homes or other locations (5.7%), both figures have not changed.
People age 75 and older account for 80% of all Covid-19 related deaths.
‘Excess deaths’
The provisional number of all deaths between Friday, July 17 and Friday, July 24 was 307, 67 more than in the previous week and 42 more than the five-year average (265).
That five-year mortality rate is used to compare the number of weekly deaths that would normally be recorded at this time of year.
Nisra also recorded the number of “excess deaths” recorded in the past 17 weeks as 1,040.
Its measure captures all coronavirus-related deaths, those involving confirmed infections listed in daily health department figures, as well as suspicious cases where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate.
