Governments around the world have massively unreported the number of deaths caused by the pandemic, with nearly 15 million people now estimated to have died
A report published today by the World Health Organisation gave a jarring new perspective of the toll taken by two years of disease and disruption.The report calculates that between January 2020 and the end of last year, about 14.9 million more people died than would have been expected in a world without the coronavirus. Governments officially reported about 5.4 million Covid-19 deaths during the same period.
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