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The Covid-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, says the World Health Organization - up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease. The WHO's long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic -- including lives lost to its knock-on effects -- finally puts a number on the broader impact of the crisis.
India's reported Covid-19 deaths for 2020-21 are 481,000, but the WHO's estimated total figure is 3.3 million to 6.5 million. New Delhi on Thursday slammed as flawed the World Health Organization's estimated pandemic-related death total for India -- which put the numbers at 10 times the country's official toll. FRANCE 24's Navodita Kumari tells us more.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday (May 5) -- nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease.
Just days before a hotly contested senate runoff election, GOP Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is going into quarantine. CNN reports the Republican senator and his wife have tested negative for COVID-19. However, after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the pair have chosen to self-quarantine. Perdue is campaigning in a runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff, who has raised tens of millions of dollars in donations. Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler is also fighting to hold onto her US Senate seat in Georgia against Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock. If Democrats win both seats, they will control the Senate next year. Any 50-50 ties will be broken by incoming Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 to be "at least 20 million", well above the official number reported to WHO of "almost seven million deaths". SOUNDBITE
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