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Italy recorded more deaths in 2020 than any other year since World War II, according to data suggesting COVID-19 caused thousands more deaths.
A total of 746,146 people died in Italy last year, according to the statistics office of ISTAT, which is 100,525 or 15.6 percent more than the average in the period 2015-2019.
From February 21, 2020, when the epidemic began, until the end of the year, the “death toll” is even higher at 108,178, 21 percent more than the last five years.
The Italian Institute of Health officially attributed 75,891 deaths last year to coronavirus, about 70 percent more deaths.
In Italy, 98,974 people have officially died from COVID-19 so far.
Officially, COVID-19 has been responsible for 10 percent of deaths in Italy since February 21 last year, with marked regional differences.
Of the 100,525 deaths last year, 76 percent were people over the age of 80 and 20 percent between the ages of 65 and 79, according to ISTAT.
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