A staggering measure of Covid-19's true toll that laid bare how vastly country after country has undercounted victims
Workers transport the body of a person who died of COVID-19 in New Delhi on April 24, 2021. Nearly a third of excess deaths globally, some 4.7 million, took place in India. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
Nearly 15 million more people died during the pandemic than would have in normal times, the World Health Organization said Thursday, a staggering measure of COVID-19’s true toll that laid bare how vastly country after country has undercounted victims.
In Mexico, the excess death toll during the first two years of the pandemic was twice as high as the government’s official tally of COVID-19 deaths, the WHO found.
In Egypt, excess deaths were roughly 12 times as great as the official COVID-19 toll.
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