According to the data provided by WHO, 57% more men have died than 43% women worldwide.
The data varies from direct or indirect encounter by the disease.
The World Health Organization has estimated 15 million deaths due to coronavirus.
It also includes the impact of the disease on health services.
The excess COVID mortalities are somewhere between 13.3 million 0and 16.6 million people from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021.
This can be termed as the double toll of death which is around six million.
The UN body said that there were 14.9 million deaths that were associated with COVID by the end of 2021.
86% deaths happened in Asia, Europe, and the America.
68% of excess deaths happened in just 10 countries.
WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus commented: “These sobering data not only point to the impact of the pandemic but also to the need for all countries to invest in more resilient health systems that can sustain essential health services during crises, including stronger health information systems.”
“WHO is committed to working with all countries to strengthen their health information systems to generate better data for better decisions and better out comes.”
