China News Service, March 3. According to the European Union News Agency of Italy, on the 2nd local time, the epidemic report jointly issued by the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) and the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) pointed out that from February 2020, In the period until January 2022 from the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, compared with the level of the same period between 2015 and 2019, the excess death toll in Italy is about 178,000.

The main cause of excess deaths is the new crown epidemic.

Data map: At a bar near the Colosseum, Italy, customers drink on the terrace.

  Reported excess deaths as of the end of January 2022 are calculated as the difference between the total number of deaths from all causes since the start of the new crown epidemic and the expected trend based on the 2015-2019 average.

About 145,334 people died from the new crown, of which 53% in 2020, 41% in 2021, and the rest occurred in January 2022.

  About 82% of deaths in 2021 occurred in the first four months of the year, when Covid-19 vaccination coverage was still low, the report said.

Mortality dropped significantly from the fifth month as vaccination became more widely available.

  The report pointed out that people who died in nursing homes or their own homes in early 2020 were not tested for the new crown virus, so the new crown may directly lead to more excess deaths.

  In 2020, the total number of deaths from all causes in Italy totaled 746,146, an increase of 15.6% from the average from 2015 to 2019, and an average of more than 100,000 more people, the highest since World War II.

  In 2021, total deaths are down 5% from 2020.

Excess deaths were concentrated in the first quarter, when vaccination rates were still low, with 72% of excess deaths over the age of 80 and 21% of those aged 65 to 79.

  Epidemiologists call the difference between the number of deaths observed and the number of deaths in a normal year "excess deaths."

Excess mortality is the result of the number of deaths in a region in a certain period of time compared with the usual number of deaths in the same period in other years, and can objectively measure the impact of the epidemic.

  The Italian Ministry of Civil Protection reported on the 2nd that there were 36,429 new confirmed cases of the new crown and 214 deaths.

As of 18:00 local time on the 2nd, there were 12,867,918 confirmed cases in Italy and 155,214 deaths.

(Boyuan)