Ministry: Covid-19 death figures now ‘dynamic’ but more indicative

Annabelle LeePublished: Sep 12, 2021 12:52 PM | Updated: Sep 12, 2021 1:19 PM

Due to an ongoing exercise to clear its backlog of Covid-19 death data, the Health Ministry expects the number of “reported deaths” to spike in the coming days.

However, it has advised the public to refer to a new dataset - “actual deaths” - as an indicator of the real-time situation....

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