> Between March 2 and August 22, 2020, a total of 3,907 COVID-19 deaths were officially recorded by the IEDCR. During the same period, a total of 2,156 people died with symptoms consistent with CLI, according to the Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS) in Bangladesh. This means that 2,156 officially unreported deaths **may have been** caused by COVID-19, which could have been reported as CLI deaths
along with existing COVID-19 death surveillance and monitoring efforts.