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🔹 Preliminary data from 24 European countries show that there were around 160 000 more deaths from March to May 2020 than the average number of deaths during the same period in 2016 to 2019 🔹 These data are particularly useful for assessing the direct and indirect effects of the #COVID-19 pandemic on the European population. 🔹 The number of deaths rose rapidly in some Member States at the beginning of March 2020. In some parts of Europe, the difference compared with previous years was excepti