The Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland has said there is a moral duty to record the deaths of all victims of the Covid-19 pandemic in the same way.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Eddie Lynch welcomed the decision to begin recording deaths in care homes and community settings in Northern Ireland.
Mr Lynch said that he had expressed concern previously that figures of cases or the deaths of older people in community or care settings were not being officially recorded.
He said the decision to do so from Friday is proper, as behind every person who passes away in a care home is a wife, husband, father, mother, granny or grandad.