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New Zealand
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26 August 2022
Paul McKenna
By email: [FYI request #20120 email]
Ref: H2022009400
Tēnā koe Paul,
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to Manatū Hauora
(Ministry of Health) on 3 August 2022 for COVID-19 case statistics. Each part of your request is
responded to below.
“The category 'Not fully vaccinated' appears to include both unvaccinated and those who
have recieved only one dose. Is this correct?
“Not fully vaccinated” includes three categories:
• no doses received;
• people who have received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine; and
• people who are not eligible to receive the vaccine.
Can you please supply separate data for the deaths among the unvaccinated, and those
who have recieved only one dose, for each age group, for the following dates:
1 February 22
1 March 22
1 April 22
1 May 22
1 June 22
1 July 22
1 August 22”
Please refer to the tables below.
Table 1: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in February 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
0
0
0
0
.s
60 to 69
0
0
0
0
.s
70 to 79
.s
0
.s
0
.s
80 to 89
0
0
.s
0
.s
90+
.s
0
.s
0
.s
Total
.s
0
9
.s
15
Table 2: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in March 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
6
.s
12
.s
24
60 to 69
.s
.s
15
15
36
70 to 79
9
.s
18
30
60
80 to 89
15
.s
27
42
87
90+
15
.s
18
30
69
Total
51
12
96
123
280
Table 3: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in April 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
6
0
6
12
24
60 to 69
.s
0
6
15
27
70 to 79
15
.s
18
33
66
80 to 89
15
.s
18
66
99
90+
9
.s
12
51
75
Total
48
6
60
177
290
Table 4: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in May 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
.s
0
.s
.s
12
60 to 69
.s
0
.s
6
15
70 to 79
9
0
12
30
48
80 to 89
6
.s
15
66
90
90+
9
.s
12
45
72
Total
36
.s
42
153
235
Table 5: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in June 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
0
0
.s
.s
6
60 to 69
.s
0
.s
9
18
70 to 79
.s
0
6
36
45
80 to 89
6
.s
.s
81
96
90+
6
.s
.s
69
81
Total
15
.s
24
198
243
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Table 6: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in July 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
.s
0
.s
6
12
60 to 69
0
0
.s
18
21
70 to 79
9
0
9
60
78
80 to 89
18
.s
18
153
189
90+
12
.s
9
165
192
Total
45
.s
36
405
492
Table 7: Deaths attributable to COVID-19 in August 2022
Age
Two
Three
No doses
One dose
Total
group
doses
doses
0 to 59
0
0
0
0
0
60 to 69
.s
0
6
12
24
70 to 79
.s
.s
9
42
54
80 to 89
9
0
6
81
96
90+
.s
.s
6
57
63
Total
15
.s
27
195
238
Confidentiality methods
To avoid revealing sensitive information about potentially identifiable individuals in our data, we
apply two data confidentiality methods, perturbation, and suppression, to any data that is not
already released as exact counts on the Ministry’s website.
Perturbation is the adding of random noise to data, for example, rounding up or rounding down.
Suppression is not providing data, where doing so could compromise confidentiality.
For data that is not already provided exactly on the website:
• All values between 1 and 5 are suppressed. This is represented in the tables above as
.s.
• Zero values are provided exactly, except for in sensitive categories where a zero value
may be suppressed to protect other low values
• Values of 6 and above are perturbed using fixed random rounding to base 3 (FRR3).
This entails rounding values to neighbouring multiples of 3. For example, 11 may be
rounded to 12 or 9.
FRR3 is a best-practice confidentiality method recommended by Stats NZ. More information
about this is available at:
www.data.govt.nz/toolkit/privacy-and-security/understanding-data-
confidentiality/data-confidentiality-principles-and-methods-report/. I trust this information fulfils your request. Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to
ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may
be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
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Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Manatu Hauorā website at:
www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-
official-information-act-requests. Nāku noa, nā
Dave Henderson
Interim Group Leader, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Knowledge
Public Health Agency, Ministry of Health
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