Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read | Financial Times

Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read | Financial Times

Global death toll might really be 60% higher

A Financial Times analysis indicates that the death toll from coronavirus might be far higher than reported in official counts. The newspaper compared all known deaths during the outbreak in 14 countries with the average deaths in those places over the past four years. Extrapolating to the whole world, there might have been as many as 318,000 deaths in excess of normal levels at the time of writing, compared with the official global COVID-19 death count of 201,000.

Financial Times | 5 min read