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Time bomb: a major new surge from Omicron or a new variant is awaiting from

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Time bomb: a major new surge from Omicron or a new variant is awaiting from

Around 15 million more people died during the pandemic than would have in normal times, according to a panel of experts assembled by the W.H.O. The figure lays bare how vast the undercount of victims — which had been reported at six million — has been around the world. Meanwile a new coronovirus surge is coming. “We all expect a major new surge from Omicron or a new variant in the global south from June to September, and if that happens, we are not going to be ready,” said Dr. Bill Rodriguez, who runs the testing arm of the ACT Accelerator, the consortium based in Geneva that is coordinating the global response. Overall deaths are much higher Most of the deaths were victims of Covid itself, the experts said, but some died because it was harder to get medical care for ailments such as heart attacks. Overall deaths that year were roughly 18 percent higher — an extra 10 million people — than in a typical year.
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