gral
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Peru has updated yesterday its COVID bodycount, tacitly admitting that it was severely undercounting deaths; as a result, number of deaths due to COVID in that country has grown for 69,000 to 184,000.
Tracking excess deaths(the increase in natural deaths in a given period in relation to the expected number) indicate that many other countries are undercounting deaths, according to this The Economist estimate: Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries .
Some of the countries that are having a noticeable gap between excess deaths and official COVID deaths include Mexico(gap of 240,000, approximately), Russia(gap of about 395,000 deaths - that can be directly attributed to the fact that Russia only attributes a death to COVID if the deceased had no comorbidities), Brazil(gap of 25,000 deaths), USA(about 50,000), Italy(30,000 deaths), South Africa(89,000). Not all of these deaths would be due to COVID, but some are - I'd expect the exact proportion of these to change from country to country.
Tracking excess deaths(the increase in natural deaths in a given period in relation to the expected number) indicate that many other countries are undercounting deaths, according to this The Economist estimate: Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries .
Some of the countries that are having a noticeable gap between excess deaths and official COVID deaths include Mexico(gap of 240,000, approximately), Russia(gap of about 395,000 deaths - that can be directly attributed to the fact that Russia only attributes a death to COVID if the deceased had no comorbidities), Brazil(gap of 25,000 deaths), USA(about 50,000), Italy(30,000 deaths), South Africa(89,000). Not all of these deaths would be due to COVID, but some are - I'd expect the exact proportion of these to change from country to country.