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Official tolls showing the number of deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a significant undercount , the World Health Organization said on Friday, saying 6-8 million people may have died so far.
Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated that total deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million last year or 1.2 million more than officially reported. We are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19, it said.
The U.N. agency officially estimates that around 3.4 million people have died directly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic by May 2021, Reuters reported.
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A relative along with a health worker helps to place the body of a person who died from COVID-19 before cremation. (File Photo| PTI) By PTI
UNITED NATIONS: At least 3 million people are estimated to have died from the COVID-19 pandemic globally in 2020, about 2 times higher than the 1.8 million official fatality figure reported by countries to the WHO, a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to the coronavirus, the global health agency said on Friday.
The WHO, in its World Health Statistics report, said that as of December 31, 2020, COVID-19 had infected over 82 million people and killed more than 1.8 million worldwide.
Official tolls showing the number of deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a “significant undercount”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which said between six and eight million people might have died so far.
As of Friday, more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide have officially been attributed to the disease since it first surfaced in China in late 2019.
However, according to a global health statistics report from the WHO released on the same day, far more people have died than would otherwise not have, had it not been for the pandemic.
In 2020, the World Health Statistics report found there had been at least three million excess deaths due directly or indirectly to COVID-19, some 1.2 million more than officially reported.
Excess deaths due to pandemic up to three times higher than reported Covid toll: WHO
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GENEVA: Official tolls showing the number of deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic are likely to be a significant undercount , the World Health Organization said on Friday, saying 6-8 million people may have died so far.
Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated that total deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million last year or 1.2 million more than officially reported.
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A member of the medical staff prepares a dose of Russia s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Bishkek. - AFP SHARE
GENEVA: Official death tolls from the Covid-19 pandemic are likely to be a significant under-count , the World Health Organization said on Friday, estimating that the true figure of direct and indirect deaths could be two to three times higher.
Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated that total deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million or 1.2 million more than 1.8 million figure officially reported.