About 14.9 mln excess deaths associated with the coronavirus pandemic were recorded in 2020 and 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Thursday.
“New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as ‘excess mortality’) between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, was approximately 14.9 mln (range 13.3 mln to 16.6 mln),” the statement reads.
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