About 14.9 mln excess deaths associated with the coronavirus pandemic were recorded in 2020 and 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Thursday, AzVision.az reports with reference to TASS.
"New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as ‘excess mortality’) between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, was approximately 14.9 mln (range 13.3 mln to 16.6 mln)," the statement reads.
"Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from earlier years," the WHO explained.
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