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Up to three times more people have died due to the pandemic than indicated by the officially reported COVID-19 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday.
“Total deaths are at least two to three times higher than officially reported,” Samira Asma, WHO Assistant Director-General in charge of data, told reporters as the UN health agency released an annual report on global health statistics.
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In 2020, it found there had been at least three million excess deaths due directly or indirectly to COVID-19, while the official number of COVID deaths was 1.8 million at the end of the year.
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