The government’s weekly Covid-19 surveillance report shows that there have been two more covid-related deaths, bringing the island’s pandemic total to 56.

The deaths occurred on September 28 and 25.

The report describes there as having been a continued ’rising incidence in secondary school aged children, particularly in the 10 to 14 age group’ which accounts for most of the positive cases in the past 7 days.

Most of these cases are from unvaccinated individuals.

And rates in the rates in people aged between 15 and 19 have stabilised whilst there has been a ’small increase’ in infections in the five to nine age group.

This week has also seen rises in some adult age groups

Currently, there were two people in hospital.

More broadly, the document talks about the island as currently experiencing a third wave of cases, and with the UK anticipating a fourth wave during the autumn/winter 2021-22, this is expected to arrive here as well.

It expects that winter pressures on health services ’may be significantly increased this year’ if a further wave of covid comes alongside an ’increased incidence of other seasonal respiratory infections (flu, RSV, etc) which were largely

suppressed last year, including on island, due to restrictions on mixing’.

These public health surveillance reports released by the government are summaries of the status of the current wave of Covid-19 in the island.

They are published each Thursday for data up to and including the previous Sunday, but some deaths from earlier time periods are only confirmed later on.

This is the only place where deaths are publicly reported, with this previously having been done via the government’s online Covid-19 dashboard.