Deaths rise in New Zealand due to COVID, demographic shifts

CLAIM: New Zealand is seeing its biggest increase in deaths in a century because of the coronavirus vaccine.  AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Government officials and experts in New Zealand say the rise in deaths last year is the result of the country’s first true wave of COVID-19 infections, which follow the lifting of the strict lockdown policy maintained during the first two years of the pandemic.

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