Excess deaths in England and Wales are at their lowest level since late March, according to the Office for National Data.

There were 12,288 signed up deaths from all causes in the week ending 22 May – 2,348 more than the five-year average.

The figure is well down on the height of the pandemic when weekly overalls reached 22,351 deaths – almost 12,000 more than regular.

Excess deaths determine the number tape-recorded above the historic average.

Sky News economics editor Ed Conway stated: “The space is at the lowest it’s been since the early days of this pandemic.

“So clearly you can see the mortality consequences are starting to abate now.”

Nevertheless, Conway added that throughout the entire of the UK since the pandemic started, figures show about 62,000 excess deaths from all causes – with around 48,000 put down to the coronavirus.

Of the current 12,288 deaths signed up in England and Wales, “novel coronavirus (COVID-19)” was pointed out in 2,589 (211%) of them – below 3,810 (261%) the week previously.

That is the lowest variety of deaths including COVID-19 in the last 7 weeks, according to the ONS.

Care home deaths connected to the coronavirus fell from 37.2% of all deaths in that setting to 32.5%.

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