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Abstract

Background: If patients across the spectrum of illness and injury avoid seeking hospital care out of concerns about acquiring COVID-19, mortality rates from ailments other than COVID-19 may increase.

Aims and objectives: This study estimated the impact of SARS-CoV-2 in excess mortality from any cause during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Korea.

Methods: The numbers of total deaths and COVID-19?related deaths were counted from January 2020 through May 2022, using public data from the Korean Statistical Information Service(KOSIS) of Statistics Korea.

Results: Excess mortality was observed nationwide in March, August, October, November, and December 2020; January, March, July, and August 2021; and October 2021 through May 2022, which was consistent with the epidemic waves in the country.

Conclusions: In this study, we found significant excess mortality occurred at the national level after 2021, which means there was an indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality aside from the direct effect of deaths from COVID-19.

Year	Confirmed cases (N)	Estimated deaths (N, 95% CI)	Reported death (P-score)	Total excess deaths (N, 95% CI)
2020	60,726	303717 (302464, 304970)	304948 (1)	1231 (-22, 2484)
2021	570,069	308314 (306730, 309892)	317774 (1.03)	9460 (7882, 11044)
2022(~May)	17,472,539	132093 (131272, 132916)	168918 (1.28)	36825 (36002, 37646)

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