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Global COVID-19 Deaths Are Severely Undercounted, Israeli-German Study Shows
By Simona Shemer, NoCamels Team
August 03, 2021 6 minutes
Countries around the world are currently battling a devastating wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant. But even as the death toll continues to climb, publicly available mortality statistics continue to show a yawning gap between official COVID-19 figures and the larger, more extensive real numbers.
A World Health Organization (WHO) report released in May suggests a severe undercount worldwide. The total number of global deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exceeds three million, according to WHO estimates. This is far from the 1,813,188 figure reported by December 31, 2020 1.2 million more deaths than divulged by country officials largely due to differing testing capacity and reporting policy.
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