The CRS data released by the Indian government on Tuesday show that India registered 8.1 million deaths in all in 2020, which is an increase of 470,000 deaths over 2019.
Nearly 15 million people around the world have died from COVID's impact, directly or indirectly, during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new World Health Organization report. It’s also about three times higher than governments have reported so far. University of Washington's Jonathan Wakefield, whose modeling work helped produce the report, joins William Brangham for more.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently said that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the Covid-19 pandemic between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 was approximately 14.9 million. This was about 9.49 million more deaths than those reported globally.
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