COVID-19: EU data 450,000 extra deaths between March and November
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Countries within the European Union recorded over 450,000 extra deaths between March and November 2020, in comparison with the identical interval previously 4 years, in response to information launched on Tuesday.
The information “gives a general measure of the mortality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic because it includes all deaths independently of their causes” statistics company Eurostat mentioned.
“The data covered in this analysis include all deaths that have occurred from January to November 2020,” it mentioned.
First wave
Eurostat used month-to-month information from all EU nations, besides Ireland which didn’t present information, to match extra mortality in 2020 to a baseline of the typical variety of deaths recorded in the identical interval between 2016 to 2019.
“During the early rise of COVID-19, the excess mortality in the EU reached its first peak in April 2020, with an increase of 25% compared with the average of the same month over 2016 – 2019,” the company mentioned.
In April, when the primary wave of the pandemic was at its peak, Spain noticed near 80% improve within the common deaths whereas Belgium noticed deaths sitting at virtually 74% above the typical.
November peak
“Between May and July, a lower level of excess mortality was registered, while yet another surge in mortality started in August – September with the next wave of the pandemic,” Eurostat mentioned.
“The excess mortality in the EU was 8% above the average in September, +17% in October and +40% in November, with the indicator rising in all EU Member States.”
The November peak was notably lethal for Poland, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, with every of them recording a rise of 90 p.c.
Belgium additionally noticed a virtually 60% improve, whereas each Italy and Austria neared a 50% improve.
Eurostat, nevertheless, pressured that whereas the substantial improve coincided with the pandemic, “the indicator does not discriminate among the causes of death and does not catch differences across sex and age classes.”
