Covid deaths and recoveries by ethnicity in New Zealand as at 7am, 25th January 2022:
Pacific peoples = 4 deaths, 3,464 recovered = 0.12% death rate
Asian = 4 deaths, 1,606 recovered = 0.25%
Māori = 18 deaths, 5,217 recovered = 0.34%
Middle Eastern, Latin American and African (MELAA) = 2 deaths, 372 recovered = 0.53%
European/other = 24 deaths, 3756 recovered = 0.63%
Unknown = 0 deaths, 25 recovered (not shown on graph due to small sample size and no ethnicity given)

OVERALL = 52 deaths, 14,440 recovered = 0.36% death rate

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NOTES:

• The Ministry of Health data provides Covid death and recovery rates by ethnicity, but not the death rate percentage which we have calculated by dividing deaths by (deaths plus recovered).
• Death figures are of those who died with Covid, not necessarily because of it. We do not have the primary cause of death or co-morbidity data.
• We omitted active cases as those outcomes are not yet known.
• We are not sure why the Ministry of Health puts “European” and “Other” together, but have asked this question.
• The prioritised ethnicity classification system is used by the Ministry of Health in this classification. This means each person is allocated to a single ethnic group, based on the ethnic groups they identify with. Where people identify with more than one group, they are assigned in this order of priority: Māori, Pacific Peoples, Asian, and European/Other. So, if a person identifies as being Māori and New Zealand European, the person is counted as Māori. See Ngā tapuae me ngā raraunga: Methods and data sources for further information.
• 52 deaths is a small sample due to the 0.36% death rate, but the recovered sample size is is 14,440.
• We have not commented on any long-term side-effects from getting Covid, or not, as that is not yet well researched, understood, or published.
• All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.
• If you would like the full data analysis workings, please contact us.

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SOURCE:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics

Data published by Ministry of Health
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Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0

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