Puerto Rico revises Hurricane Maria death toll to 2,975

Government has called for more US aid as the clean up continues

Puerto Rico continues to struggle to rebuild infrastructure as death toll is revised
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Puerto Rico has increased its official Hurricane Maria death toll to 2,97 in light of a new report by researchers from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.

The new figure is 46 times higher than the previous estimate released in December 2017, when the government claimed 64 people had died in the storm.

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