Global death toll to rise 3 times higher than reported due to COVID-19: WHO

The pandemic continues to rage, many countries have been suffering repeated allegations of undercounting of casualties and misinformation. India also stands in one of them when it comes to the overall impact of the deadly virus.

The global data about coronavirus death toll having begun at the end of 2019 has reached 165594437 so far. India recently hit by second wave of coronavirus has been alleged of undercounting of deaths due to COVID-19 as once it’s death till on daily basis reported to be mire than 300000. In India, it is cited that obituaries and death reports collated from cemeteries and crematoriums to allege that the list of fatalities is several thousand times higher. According to the World Health Organization, things might be far more chaotic than believed before. According to reports, the WHO believes that up to three times more people have died due to the pandemic than indicated due to novel coronavirus. "Preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global ‘excess deaths’ directly and indirectly attributable to COVID-19 in 2020 amount to at least 3 million, 1.2 million higher than the official figures reported by countries to WHO.

Till date, the official cumulative death toll from COVID-19 stands at 3432022. However, it is noted that the pandemic may have increased deaths from other causes also due to disruption to health service delivery and routine immunizations.

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