The virus was the leading cause of death in both 2020 and 2021. In 2022 it was behind dementia and Alzheimer's and ischaemic heart diseases.
COVID-19 has dropped out of the top five leading causes of death in England and Wales for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The virus was the sixth leading cause of death in 2022, down from the leading cause in both 2020 and 2021, with 73,766 deaths and 67,350 respectively, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics . Sarah Caul, head of mortality analysis, said the figures represent a"significant change" in the leading causes of death since the beginning of the pandemic.levels among the population of England and Wales last year reached the highest they had ever been since the pandemic began, peaking at an estimated 4.4 million weekly infections at the end of March, due to the development of new variants.
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