I can't say about other countries, but it's well known that western countries artificially inflated covid rates by recording deaths by any reason as covid deaths if they ever tested positive.
If you test positive for covid and a year later you die from being shot, it was a covid death.
It took almost 2.5 years before the UK switched from "died from covid" to "died with covid" when the person died from something totally unrelated to covid. Now that the pandemic is over, the UK properly defines it deaths based solely on the cause.
