2,000 'excess deaths' due to Covid, CSO study reveals

According to the CSO, there were deaths 3,504 in April 2020. File picture

There were over 2,000 more deaths recorded between March 2020 and February 2021 than there would have been without Covid-19, according to the Central Statistics Office.

The figures come from the CSO’s experimental analysis on measuring mortality using public data sources, which used death notices placed on the website RIP.ie to monitor trends in mortality in Ireland.