haxxiy on 12 February 2022
Countries have different timings and ways of reporting deaths, though, especially when their infrastructure isn't that good. What is being reported now might have happened a long time ago...
For instance this is when deaths actually happened in SA:
Same with India, which beginning October began to report huge death backlogs that lasted all the way to Omicron:
There are also many other issues just looking at raw data because of inconsistent, non-standardized reporting.
What does "intensive care" mean, for instance? What is a hospitalization?
