New analysis finds global Covid death toll is double official estimates Sandy Rice searches for a file in a drawer of records on Covid-19 deaths at McKenzie Mortuary Services in Long Beach, Calif.
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A new analysis of the toll of the Covid-19 pandemic suggests 6.9 million people worldwide have died from the disease, more than twice as many people as has been officially reported.
In the United States, the analysis estimates, 905,000 people have died of Covid since the start of the pandemic. That is about 38% higher than the current death estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 561,594. The new figure also surpasses the estimated number of U.S. deaths in the 1918 flu pandemic, which was estimated to have killed approximately 675,000 Americans.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nearly 6.9 million deaths across the world, more than double the number officially recorded, a new analysis from the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated.
Here s the latest from around the world overnight.
Asia-Pacific
India
India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3980 daily deaths, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside.
With Delhi running short of ambulances, authorities have turned some of the city s ubiquitous three-wheeled autorickshaws into makeshift ambulances to ferry COVID-19 patients.
Global Covid-19 death toll more than double official estimates
Deaths go unreported as countries only record those that occur in hospitals or of patients with confirmed infection
Reuters
May 07, 2021
A general view of the mass cremation of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. REUTERS
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused nearly 6.9 million deaths across the world, more than double the number officially recorded, a new analysis from the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated.
Deaths go unreported as most countries only record those that occur in hospitals or of patients with confirmed infection, the report showed.
Men wearing protective suits place a white cloth over the body their relative, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before his cremation on the banks of the river Ganges at Garhmukteshwar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
(Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nearly 6.9 million deaths across the world, more than double the number officially recorded, a new analysis from the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated.
Deaths go unreported as most countries only record those that occur in hospitals or of patients with a confirmed infection, the report showed.