The decision appears to leave the City of York Council area with an official final Covid death toll of 615.
A ‘Covid-19 daily data tracker’ report was published every quarter in 2023, providing a range of information, including the total number of people who had died since the start of the pandemic with Covid recorded on their death certificates.
Using statistics provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the public health reports, produced by the council's Business Intelligence Hub, said last September that there had been 600 such deaths, and the figure rose to 615 by December 22.
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