Kevin, the deaths in that graph (apologies for the source Suedehead) are people that have been tested positive for COVID 19.
They may have had underlying conditions or a combination of Covid and another illness may have caused their death, but the people in the graph would have been infected.
The figures will be worse, probably around 50,000 which will have occurred in private homes.
You can see these figures if you compare the average deaths over the last 5 years against the deaths over the last 3 months
Truely shameful, but still, 50% of the country back this criminally incompetent government.