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Official figures say there have been 55,000 Covid-19 deaths in South Africa since March 27 last year. That puts the country’s death rate at 92.7 per 100,000 people, the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. It is also a significant underestimate – as, it seems safe to infer, are all the other African data on the disease. Over the year to May 8 the country recorded 158,499 excess deaths – that is, deaths above the number that would be expected on past trends, given demographic changes. Public-health officials feel confident that 85-95 per cent of those deaths were caused by sars-cov-2, the Covid-19 virus, almost three times the official number. The discrepancy is the result of the fact that, for a death to be registered as caused by Covid-19, the deceased needs to have had a Covid test and been recorded as having died from the disease. Although South Africa does a lot of testing compared with neighbouring countries, its overall rate is still low. And the cause of death is unevenly re

South africaUnited statesUnited kingdomSoutheast asiaAriel karlinskyUniversity of washingtonKohelet economic forumInstitute for health metricsSaharan africaLatin americaHealth metricsWorld mortality datasetஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம்தென்கிழக்கு ஆசியாபல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் வாஷிங்டன்