This is perfectly correct. Belgium is currently the only country reporting the total number of excess deaths. Here in Italy we reported just half of the excess deaths as caused by COVID-19. So yes, for making the data comparable, a factor 2 must be applied. But the fact is that Belgium was correct, it is Italy who is under-reporting half of the excess deaths...You mentioned Belgium, and Belgium have gone on the record as saying they have inflated their covid-19 death toll by 100%.
...Professor Steven Van Gucht.The virologist and public face of Brussels' scientific response to the crisis says Belgium's "honest" method of counting COVID-19 victims means the country's death rate should be divided by two for a more accurate comparison with most other nations.
Picking and choosing which OFFICIAL death tolls are correct is beyond comprehension. All these false statistics will go down in history as facts
So, instead of dividing the number of deaths in Belgium by 2, it is our number of deaths in Italy which should be doubled...
This excess mortality is caused by Covid-19 only indirectly: the health system collapsed, and no therapy was given anymore to patents with cancer or hearth problems, so a number of excess deaths occurred to people who did not get the virus, as a direct consequence of the lack of proper therapies.
And of course there was a number of people who died at home and were never tested for COVID-19...
In any case, a factor of 2 between the real number of deaths and the officially reported number is perfectly correct for Italy.