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Breakdown of COVID-19-related deaths in Northern Ireland published for week ending 10 April

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Statistics released this morning by NISRA reveal that up until the week ending 10 April there were 157 COVID-19-related deaths in Northern Ireland. 109 people died in hospital (69%); 41 people died in care homes and hospices (26%) across 23 separate establishments; 7 people died at residential addresses (4%). 39 of these deaths which mentioned COVID-19 on their death certificate were not part of previous PHA daily reports of deaths of people with positive tests for COVID-19.

SOAPBOX: Suicide – the public health crisis of our times

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Carrie Montgomery is deputy chief executive at Contact NI. If 90% of Northern Ireland patient deaths by suicide were assessed as no or low risk during their last contact with services, she asks in this post why the Public Health Agency is being constrained to just provide services for people at high risk of suicide?