Tag: coronavirus mortality

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 06:18 UTC

  Wrong stats: Peru doubles its official Covid-19 death toll, 69,342 to 180,764

  

  Peru more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll, becoming the country with the highest Covid-19 mortality per capita anywhere in the world. The government admitted it had raised the count from 69,342 to 180,764 on the advice of a panel of health experts, which found there had been an undercount.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Mexican median age of Covid-19 deaths is 55, compared to 75 in other countries

  

  Mexico’s coronavirus spokesman said on Thursday the country’s median age of death from COVID-19 was a shockingly young 55, as compared to an average of 75 in many European countries.