Covid 19 death count: Which countries are faring worst?
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
Are different countries counting deaths from Covid-19 in the same way? Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the data available.
We discover Peru currently has the most excess deaths per capita over the course of the pandemic, while Belgium has the highest Covid death count per capita.
Tim speaks to Hannah Ritchie from Our World in Data and John Burn Murdoch, senior data visualisation journalist at the Financial Times.
(Photo: Medical staff wait for Covid-19 patients brought from remote communities to an Amazon River port in Iquitos, Peru, for transfer to the city hospital. Credit: Cesar Von Bancels/Getty Images)
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