nick stripe, from the office for national statistics. reaction to all of that.stripe from the 0ns been saying, does that back up what you have suspected, believed, in relation to covid—19 deaths and ethnic background? yes, thank you for inviting me. this is really good work by the 0ns and we are very grateful to them for doing this so quickly. now that this great big red flag has been raised, that the ethnic minorities, black, asian and minority ethnic people, they have an added risk, we must do something about it immediately. i appreciate by the time you have cleaned up the data for location, geography, other things, the risk came down quite a bit. nevertheless, we have identified they are at added risk. we have to do something about it. in other words... can i come to that in just a moment, what we do about it, but can you firm up to any degree what nick stripe was suggesting might be the reasons for this differential between people of white ethnicity and people from other ethnicity and people from other ethnic backgrounds? is it to do with a predisposition to

. —— i think we can talk to nick stripe. please fill in the audience. there is a caveat in that there were no registrations on that day. so effectively we are about 20% lower than we would have been if that was a full working day. bearing that caveat in mind there were 12,657 deaths registered across england and wales, just over 5000 lower than the week before, still 3000 above the five year average. but remember that caveat. we would probably have been above about 15,000 if it wasn't for the ve day bank holiday. 31% of those deaths were by woods related, around 4000. but that total figure that i had just read out, covid related deaths up to maybe eight, 30 you contrast that with the daily figure we are getting at the downing street briefings, there is a disparity, a huge disparity. every week we do a comparison and look at what was announced at the daily briefings on that particular day, or actually the day after to bring accepted that day, we compare that against what we are now seeing in terms of the currencies up for that day, consistently we are ab

nick stripe is its head of health analysis. here he is speaking about the most recent figures. than it was the week before. but it is still 8000 above the average we would expect to see in this week at this time of year. so is actually the seventh highest weekly total since then that is thought started in at 1993 so we have had for out of the top seven weeks in the last four weeks. and while numbers can't tell the whole story, the caution that we've seen from the uk government this week, placing caveats against plans for ease restrictions injune and july, well, that caution is underpinned by the knowledge that while the numbers are improving, they still tell of a real and present danger. if people want more analysis of the statistics released by bbc news today, they are available through the bbc news app and the bbc news website, which is bbc .com/ news. thanks very much. finally, we want to pay tribute to the superheroes in scrubs for international nurse's day. people around the world today have been reflecting on their huge contribution in the fight against covid—19. tributes

nick stripe is head of health analysis at the office for national statistics.or deaths registered in the week ending friday may the 1st, the total number of deaths across england and wales was just under 18,000, 17,953, about 4000 lower than the week before, but still 80,000 above the average we would expect to see in this week at this time of year, so it is the seventh highest weekly total since this dataset started in 1993, we have had four out of the top seven weeks in the last four weeks. 0ur head of statistics robert cuffe is here. fill us in about the total number of deaths across the uk?|j fill us in about the total number of deaths across the uk? i think it can be quite confusing, we are hearing different figures all the time. these figures from the 0ns go up to may the 1st. we think back in time, around then the figure we heard that the press conference everyday and so on the comparison websites, that was running at around just under 30,000 deaths. when we look at all of the deaths. when we look at all of the deaths including covid mentions on the deat

earlier i spoke to nick stripe, the head of health analysis at the office for national statistics, whogher for some of those ethnic groupings compared to the white ethnic grouping. so, we already know from previous work we've released and published that things like your age, things like your gender, and things like where you live, your location, are key things in terms of people's likelihood thus far of dying of covid—related issues. so, what we've actually got is your probability of dying with covid is made up of two things. firstly, your probability of actually being infected in the first place. and, then, secondly, your probability of dying once you have been infected. now, those two things are influenced by your personal circumstances to a large degree. so, the first thing we did is we looked, adjusting for age, at what the difference was in terms of risk of dying by these ethnic groups and that brought out some quite stark differences. so, just adjusting for age, we saw the black ethnic grouping was just over four times more likely to die of covid—related issues than the white gro

nick stripe is head of analysis there. the way. good morning, the number of deaths registered across the country, local register offices, when a death happens, you register that death. it takes a couple of weeks for us to get the figures. this is for deaths registered in the week ending friday the 1st of may. the total number of deaths across england and wales was just under 18,000. 17,953. about a000 lower thanit 18,000. 17,953. about a000 lower than it was the week before. but it's still 8000 above the average we would expect to see in this week at this time of year. actually the seventh highest weekly total since this dataset started in 93. we've had four out of the top seven weeks in the last four weeks. can i just polish you, just so i make sure i had this, the total number of deaths registered up to fried it made a first come england and wales, 18,000, a000 lower than the week before. in terms of number of deaths we normally have this time of year, its 8000 excess, that fair? that's right. —— friday the 1st of may. i

let's speak with nick stripe, their head of health analysis, to look at what they can tell us is happening give you some big numbers and it's easy to forget the human story behind them but this is for the week ending the 24th of april, death registrations, so every death across the country is registered. this is not data through the health system, all death registrations in the country, registered in the weekend ending 24th of april. figures show that there were 21,997 deaths registered across england and wales that week. that's about 350 deaths lesser than the week before. let me pause you there, that's the first decrease during the academic? the first one, yes. we are still 11,500 above average for this week in a year, till more than double what we would expect at this time of year, so last week was the highest number for death registrations we had seen since the data started in 1993, this is the second highest week since that data started but it's the first week we have seen a slight drop and it is perhaps useful to think about the timing of these death registrations, so these are large