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Between March and December Italy had over 108,000 excess deaths

cde.news desk 5 March 2021, 18:30 · 1 min read

epa08305764 The column of military trucks loaded with coffins leaves Bergamo, Italy, 19 March 2020. An impressive column of military vehicles has crossed the heart of Bergamo tonight, from the monumental cemetery to the highway, with a border of coffin of the coronavirus dead that the Bergamo cemetery can no longer manage due to the surge: the expectations for the existing cremations now passed the week. The coffin, placed on about thirty army trucks, are about seventy and are directed to a dozen investments throughout Italy. Italy is under lockdown in an attempt to stop the wide spread of Coronavirus. Italy now has more than 30,000 coronavirus cases. EPA-EFE/FABIO CONTI

Between March and December, Italy reported 108,178 more deaths, than the average for the same period in the years 2015-2019 (21% excess).

This is highlighted by the Iss-Istat report on the 2020 mortality analysis for the total of deaths and for the subset of Covid-19 positive subjects who died.

In 2020, the total number of deaths was the highest ever recorded since the Second World War: 746,146 deaths, 100,526 more than the 2015-2019 average.

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Between March and December Italy had over 108,000 excess deaths

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