Italy records 178 000 excess deaths during COVID pandemic - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The excess death figure, measured to the end of January 2022, calculates the difference between the total deaths from all causes since the start of the pandemic and the expected trend based on the 2015-2019 average., 53% of which occurred in 2020, 41% in 2021 and the remainder in the first month of this year.was still very low, the report said.

“As the vaccination campaign progressed, mortality decreased significantly from week 20 onwards last year,” it said. People who died in nursing homes or in their own homes in early 2020 were not being tested for COVID, so the coronavirus could be directly responsible for more of the excess deaths.In 2020, the total number of deaths from all causes was the highest recorded in Italy since World War Two – 746 146, over 100 000 more than the 2015-2019 average.

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