SA’s Covid death toll is one of the worst in the world

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About 157,000 excess deaths in the past year three times higher than the official tally

Medical Research Council points to underreporting of Covid-19 deaths for huge discrepancy with confirmed fatalitiesA new report from the Medical Research Council says SA has experienced one of the world’s worst death tolls from Covid-19 relative to the size of its population, highlighting the devastating effect of the pandemic in the past year.

It estimates there have been 157,000 excess deaths from natural causes in the 12 months to May 8, a figure that is three times higher than the official death tally of 52,687...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

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...just like our murder, rape, crime, education and health stats. It’s the price a stupid citizenry pays for making consistently bad choices.

Rubbish ! What fake news is this

But then again, so is our road death toll, our murder rate, and our rape rate. You’d think that would be an incentive for the ANC GovernmentZA to employ the most competent people and fire those who don’t deliver. But sadly, the ANC does not care about the people of SA.

He should tell his mom that SA is one of the worst countries towards Covid 19, we are cool here, india does not come close to us

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