Eastern Cape Covid-19 deaths may be 8,000 — four times official number

While official statistics show that more than 2,200 people in the province have succumbed to the coronavirus to date, researchers have shown how the Eastern Cape, along with the rest of SA, exhibited a high “excess mortality” rate in June and July compared to death figures for the same period in 2018 and 2019.

Excess deaths are the number of observed deaths higher than what would be expected under normal circumstances and based on past records of deaths. This is an important measure for public health specialists to check the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. Published weekly death statistics show the province recorded 7,597 excess deaths as the pandemic started to peak during June and July.

When the figures were released earlier this month, the focus was on the fall in the weekly number of deaths from Covid-19, with little examination of excess fatalities.

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