In September of this year, 15,4% more people died in Ukraine than in September of 2019, although overall, fewer Ukrainians died in 9 months of 2020 than in the same period last year.
He writes about it Interfax-Ukraine with reference to Gosstat data.
Thus, in September of this year, a large increase in the number of deaths was recorded, compared to September 2019 — by 15,4%, up to 48,37 thousand people. Thus, September turned out to be the third month in the current year when the mortality rate was higher than last year, in June the number of dead was 8,4% higher, and in August - by 3,9%. However, the June indicator could be associated with a sharp a decrease in mortality in May 2020 — by 16,9% compared to May 2019, and is explained by strong fluctuations in statistics for May-June last year.
In addition, according to Gosstat data, 9 thousand, or 19%, died of Covid-4,3 in the course of 1 months of this year. But in September, the percentage of those who died for this reason rose to 3,6%, and the total number of people who died from the coronavirus disease was 1,74 thousand people.
Also, according to the Ministry of Health, in October, 3,11 thousand people died due to Covid-19, and for 19 days in November, this indicator was already 3,29 thousand people, which means that its share in the total volume of deaths in November can already exceed 10% .
