In the Netherlands, the Corona pandemic started in the southeast of the Netherlands at the beginning of March 2020 and gradually spread to the rest of the country from there. During the second wave, COVID-19 deaths were more common in major cities, where incomes tend to fall and more people with immigrant backgrounds live. The total number of deaths from COVID-19 during the first year of the Corona epidemic reached 28,000.
On average, low-income people die earlier than high-income people from a variety of causes. This also applies to death from COVID-19. In the first wave of the Corona pandemic, these differences by income were comparable to those in deaths from other causes of death. However, during the second wave of the Corona pandemic, the known differences in the odds of deaths for COVID-19 between income groups increased even more.
The relative risks of death from COVID-19 among people with immigrant backgrounds were slightly higher than among people with Dutch background. This also applies after controlling for differences in social and demographic characteristics such as the level of prosperity. The risk of death from COVID-19 was particularly higher among people of Moroccan, Turkish and Surinamese descent.
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