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. 2023 Mar 29;36(4):346–379. doi: 10.37201/req/002.2023

Table 4.

Mortality in nursing homes. Adapted from Glette et al [15].

Country Date Approach to measuring COVID-19 linked deaths in care homes Total number deaths linked to COVID-19* Number of deaths of care home residents linked to COVID-19 Number of deaths in care homes linked to COVID-19 Number of care home resident deaths as
% of all COVID-19
deaths
Number of deaths in care homes as % of all COVID-19 deaths
Australia 22/01/2021 C 909 685 75%
Austria 24/01/2021 C 7,328 3,243 44%
Belgium 19/01/2021 C + P 20,457 11,722 8,854 57% 43%
Canada 23/01/2021 C + P 18,974 11,114 59%
Denmark 19/01/2021 C 1,837 719 39%
Finland 22/01/2021 C 644 243 33%
France 20/01/2021 C + P 71,342 30,395 21,646 43% 30%
Germany 22/01/2021 C 50,642 14,066 28%
Hong Kong 25/01/2021 C 169 32 0 19% 0%
Hungary 27/08/2020 C 612 142 23%
Ireland 13/12/2020 C + P 2,110 1,084 51%
Israel 25/10/2020 C 2,404 861 36%
Netherlands 15/01/2021 C 12,774 6,529 51%
New Zealand 12/01/2021 C + P 25 16 64%
Norway 20/01/2021 C 533 318 60%
Portugal 10/01/2021 Unclear 7,803 2,254** 29%**
Singapore 24/01/2021 C 29 4 0 14% 0%
Slovenia 17/01/2021 C 3,371 1,875 56%
South Korea 07/09/2020 C 336 27 0 8% 0%
Spain 22/01/2021 C + P 66,557 26,328 40%
Sweden 18/01/2021 C + P 9,949 4,656 4,249 47% 43%
England (UK) 15/01/2021 C + P 88,674 29,381 21,615 33% 24%
Wales (UK) 15/01/2021 C + P 5,884 1,470 1,267 25% 22%
N. Ireland (UK) 15/01/2021 C + P 2,124 862 642 41% 30%
Scotland (UK) 17/01/2021 C + P 7,448 3,266 2,867 44% 38%
United Kingdom As above C + P 104,130 34,979 26,391 34% 25%
United States 07/01/2021 C + P 357,124 139,699 39%

C: confirmed; P: probable