The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that COVID-19 has caused nearly 15 million deaths worldwide. This includes deaths from direct COVID-19 and other deaths. related until the body enters into a crisis such as a shortage of health services due to the increasing number of infections and hospitalizations that are overflowing
The World Health Organization defines a higher mortality rate than initially reported as: “The difference between the number of deaths that occurred with the number expected to occur if there was no pandemic based on data from the previous year.” Since the epidemic began until the end of 2021, there have been 14.9 million deaths, compared with 5.4 million deaths from the current report.
The WHO’s latest calculations have surpassed the official figures now. Due to the number of deaths from different countries that are not reported according to the actual mortality rate The World Health Organization states that In the pre-epidemic period, six out of 10 global deaths were not reported in any way.
“These worrisome information not only pointing to the impact of the pandemic It also includes the need for all countries to invest in more resilient health systems. which can maintain essential health services in times of crisis and a stronger health information system,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general.
The number of deaths has risen to nearly 10 million from today’s official reports over the past two years of the outbreak. Instead, they are concentrated in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas, with more than two-thirds of them occurring in 10 countries, particularly the US and India.
However, more than half of the deaths yet to be counted have occurred in India. According to the report More than 4.7 million Indians may have died in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak. especially During the epidemic wave of around May and June 2021, however, the Indian government reported the number of deaths from COVID-19. During that time, only 480,000
The Indian government has attacked the WHO report, saying: was revealed It “without adequately addressing India’s concerns” about the use of “suspicious” research protocols by a WHO panel of international experts. People who work on data for months Use both national and local data. as well as statistical models To assess the aggregate of incomplete data according to the research regulations India has criticized.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/05/covid-excess-global-deaths-nearly-15-million/
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