Covid-19 deaths may be twice as high as official toll, says MRC

The government’s official coronavirus figures could be missing more than half the deaths caused by the pandemic, a new report from the Medical Research Council (MRC) reveals.

The report provides new insight into the toll of Covid-19, which was first detected in SA on March 5 2020...

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