THE overall death rate has not increased despite more deaths from Covid-19, and this is because those who died from the virus would likely have otherwise perished from other medical conditions.
In fact, a closer look at the mortality numbers here shows that the republic’s death rate in 2021 is lower than the rates in 2016, 2017 and 2018 – before the Covid-19 pandemic began – and is only slightly higher than 2019 and 2020.
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