South Africa's COVID-19 death toll much higher than official tally: Report

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A South African report into excess deaths over the past year suggests more than 133,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19, far more ...

A healthcare worker tends to a patient at a temporary ward set up at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, during the COVID-19 outbreak on Jan 19, 2021. JOHANNESBURG: A South African report into excess deaths over the past year suggests more than 133,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19, far more than the official tally of nearly 55,000.

Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods.

 

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