New Ways to Monitor COVID-19 Deaths

In Finland, COVID-19 deaths will be reported based on death certificates. The deaths will be divided those due to COVID-19 and where the virus was a contributing factor.

Finland changed its method of collecting data on COVID-19 deaths, to make the data more accurate and uniform throughout the country.

Reporting will be harmonized with regard to which patients are in hospital with COVID-19, and which are theredue to the virus, reports Xinhua news agency.

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The reporting of COVID-19 deaths will be based on the causes of death and not on the temporal connection between infection and death, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) said.

In Finland, since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, deaths that have occurred within 30 days of confirmed COVID-19 infection have been monitored.

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According to THL, at the beginning of the pandemic, it was important to identify all deaths that occurred after COVID-19 infection. Death was often found to have a clear connection to the infection.

However, at this stage not all infections have a clear causal connection to the deaths, and a large number of other deaths have been included in the reporting, THL noted.

“It is important to draw attention specifically to deaths caused by the COVID-19 virus. In cases where COVID-19 is recorded as a contributing factor to death, the actual cause of death is something else,” said THL's chief physician Tuija Leino.

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“In Finland and internationally, we consider the number of COVID-19 deaths to be those cases in which the death is considered to have been caused by COVID-19,” said the expert.

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