The COVID-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated.
The WHO said that most of the excess deaths -- 84 percent -- were concentrated in south and southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.NEW YORK - The COVID-19 pandemic killed around 15-million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated on Thursday - nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease.
The figures are extremely sensitive due to how they reflect on the handling of the crisis by authorities around the world, with some countries, notably India, already contesting the far higher numbers. The WHO estimated some 4.75-million deaths in India since 2020 could be attributed to the crisis, either directly from COVID-19 or indirectly through the pandemic's wider impact on health systems and society.
South Africa's new COVID-19 cases shot up by more than 50 percent Thursday from the previous day, official data showed amid a surge of infections driven by two new Omicron sub-variants.
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