Ms Mary Dunnion:

Under legislation, every provider has to issue a notification of an unexpected death. We receive those notifications every day. In 2019, 150 unexpected deaths were reported. In 2020, 1,029 unexpected deaths have been reported as of this morning. This does not mean that all of those deaths are related to Covid-19, but they are classed as unexpected. The validation of those figures will be done by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC.