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Covid-19 death tolls are likely a 'significant undercount', WHO says

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GENEVA: Official tolls showing the number of deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a "significant undercount", the World Health Organization said on Friday, saying 6-8 million people may have died so far.Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated that total deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million last year or 1.2 million more than officially reported."We are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19," it said.The U.N.

agency officially estimates that around 3.4 million people have died directly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic by May 2021."...This number would truly be two to.

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