Coronavirus and Smoking: Barking
(asked on 21st October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people who died from (a) smoking-related illnesses and (b) covid-19 in Barking in last 12 months.
This question was answered on 29th October 2021
Data on the number of people who died from smoking-related illness in the past year is not currently available. The latest update to smoking attributable mortality estimates at local authority level is expected in mid-2022.
In the past 12 months, 486 people in Barking and Dagenham died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test.