The MRC researchers calculate that there have been over 320,000 excess deaths in South Africa since May 2020 (as of July 2022). As they’ve explained, conservatively 85% of these are Covid deaths. It may be as high as 95%. We can conclude that close to 300,000, people have died of Covid in South Africa. Over the past two years about 1 in 200 people in the country have died of this new infection.

It's really bleak...

I'm just scared with regards to how badly the rest of the continent fared. We really got screwed hard by this.