EXCESS DEATHS: 264,809 deaths later: Covid-19’s terrifying toll on South Africa, almost three times the official figure
How does South Africa measure the scale of its Covid-19 epidemic? ‘Corpses are the one certainty. From the outset, scientists knew that counting deaths would give us the most accurate information about what is happening with the Covid epidemic in South Africa.’ That’s according to Tom Moultrie, professor of demography and director of the Centre for Actuarial Research at the University of Cape…