Topline The Covid-19 pandemic may have claimed nearly 15 million around the world in 2020 and 2021, according to World Health Organization estimates published in Nature on Wednesday, almost three time...
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20,000 Died Amid Punishing Heatwaves And Record Temperatures Across Western Europe This Summer, Data Indicates
Topline Extreme heat was responsible for more than 20,000 deaths across western Europe this summer, official figures suggest, as the continent was battered by a series of punishing heatwaves and recor...
True Covid Pandemic Death Toll Could Be Three Times Higher Than Official Count, Study Finds
Topline Covid-19 may have claimed far more lives than official records indicate, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal, a sobering figure that marks exactly two years since ...