coronavirus<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the rate of coronavirus deaths was so low in Wales they couldn\u2019t even work out where Covid ranked compared to other diseases.<\/p>\n
Despite deaths having plummeted over the past few months because of lockdown and vaccines, the virus is still the leading killer this year.<\/p>\n
But fatalities are starting to speed up now, with infections having soared because of the spread of the Indian Delta variant. Experts say the easing of restrictions will inevitably cause the outbreak to pick up pace.<\/p>\n
And despite vaccines drastically slashing the risk of people falling seriously ill, they are not perfect. A proportion of people who get infected will still die, although that fraction is much smaller now than it was before the roll-out began.<\/p>\n
Of the 38,611 people who died in England in June, just 344 (0.9 per cent) died from Covid.<\/p>\n
The ONS calculates the figures based on the number of deaths where Covid was the underlying cause.<\/p>\n
Taking into account all deaths that involved Covid, the virus was linked to 476 fatalities\u00a0\u2014 1.2 per cent of all deaths in England.<\/p>\n
The equivalent figure for Wales is 0.2 per cent, with the virus contributing to five deaths.<\/p>\n
But Covid was only blamed for two of the 2,560 deaths registered in Wales.<\/p>\n
The 0.1 per cent of deaths linked to the virus in Wales is the lowest proportion the country has seen so far in the pandemic.\u00a0It was so low that the ONS was unable to accurately rank it against other leading causes.<\/p>\n
Covid killed slightly more people in England in June compared to the month before, accounting for 75 deaths per million people compared to 71 per million in May.<\/p>\n
But it was still nowhere near the scale of the crisis seen in the first wave, when figures breached 6,200 deaths for every million people.<\/p>\n
In the second wave, Covid fatalities peaked at 5,496 per million, the same ONS data showed.<\/p>\n
Despite low death numbers recorded in May and June, the coronavirus is still the biggest killer so far this year, accounting for 17.3 per cent of all deaths in England and 13.9 per cent of all deaths in Wales.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the figures also showed\u00a0deaths from flu and pneumonia were much lower than the five-year average.<\/p>\n
The ONS team said: ‘This is likely in part because of coronavirus restrictions and guidance, such as social distancing, reducing the spread of infections such as flu.’<\/p>\n
Heart disease was the biggest killer in June, causing 4,183 deaths\u00a0\u2014 equating to 10.8 per cent of all deaths in England.<\/p>\n
It was followed by dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease (10.3 per cent), lung cancer (5.8 per cent) and strokes and other brain diseases (5.5 per cent).<\/p>\n
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