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April 27, 2020 Coronavirus victims worldwide may be many more than double that of official data. This is what emerges from an analysis of the 'Financial Times' conducted on 14 countries affected by the pandemic, including Italy and all the main European countries.

The British newspaper speaks of a death toll almost 60% higher than that of official statistics, a figure to which experts arrive by comparing the deaths that occurred between March and April of this year with those of the same period of the past five years . Result: there were 122,000 deaths more than normal, many more than the 77,000 official deaths recorded in these countries due to the Covid-19 infections. If the data were equally underestimated in other states not included in the Financial Times study, coronavirus globally could have killed 318,000 patients, well above the current 200,000 and more victims. 

In all the countries analyzed, except Denmark, the number of deaths from March to April 2020 would have far exceeded the historical average: in Italy by 90%, in Belgium by 60%, in Spain by 51%, in the Netherlands of 42% and 34% in France. In particular, as regards our country, the 'Financial Times' calculates for Lombardy, the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe, 55% more deaths than the average of the previous five years, and in the province of Bergamo alone 464%, the highest figure ever ahead of New York (200%) and Madrid (161%). 

The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60% higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries https://t.co/uVuYN1pha7

- Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 26, 2020