This is due to delays in reporting. Some countries may only count hospital deaths whilst others have started to include deaths in homes the reported death figures on a given date does not necessarily show the number of new deaths on that day. How covid 19 deaths are recorded may differ between countries e g.
The official coronavirus death toll is in fact likely to undershoot the actual toll because many serious covid 19 patients suffer from underlying conditions that might appear as the cause of death. But coronavirus has killed at a much faster rate. The us death toll from coronavirus this year has now exceeded 62 000 surpassing the high end estimate for flu deaths.
There were 30 new. This means only one death has been reported in the last week. There have been no new coronavirus deaths reported in wales on saturday public health wales phw has confirmed.
Many covid 19 death certificates are being handled by physicians unless the death occurred outside of the hospital in which case a medical examiner or coroner would step in said dr. The latest figures using this measure suggest there. The first includes all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate even if the person had not been tested for the virus.
