Czech scientists from the initiative Sníh or Snow say thousands of people in the Czech Republic died unnecessarily during the Covid-19 pandemic. They also estimate that the country’s inhabitants have lost in total 90,000 years of life. The Czech initiative is part of the global John Snow Memorandum, which calls for a science-based approach to the pandemic.
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According to the latest data released by the Czech Statistics Office, the number of people who died between March and November of this year is 7,500 higher than the five-year average for the given period. During the first week of November, 4,135 people died in the country, which is double the five-year average.