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Covid-19 directly and indirectly killed 14.9 million people over 2020 and 2021 – nearly three times more than reported deaths in the period – according to the latest World Health Organization data. The calculation of excess deaths is an important tool to gauge the full impact of the pandemic as many countries lack the mechanism to report the mortality caused by Covid-19 in a timely manner. The WHO estimate released on Thursday put the coronavirus death toll 2.75 times higher than the reported 5.4 million in 2020-21. Around 84 per cent of the excess deaths were in Southeast Asia, Europe...
