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Coronavirus cases in Africa surpass the 2 million mark

Coronavirus cases in Africa surpass the 2 million mark

SHAINA AHLUWALIA  TOTAL coronavirus cases in Africa have surpassed the 2 million mark despite the slow addition of reported infections compared to other regions around the world. With over 2,012,000 cases, Africa represents under 4% of the world's reported cases, which many experts believe to be an undercount. They believe that many COVID-19 infections and related deaths in Africa are likely being missed as testing rates in the continent of about 1.3 billion people are among the lowest in the world, and many deaths of all types go unrecorded. The region's COVID-19 fatality rate at nearly 2.4% is the third…
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COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates

COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates

KEVIN MARSH, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford MOSES ALOBO, Programme Manager for Grand Challenges Africa, African Academy of Sciences AS the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing load of infectious and non-infectious diseases often led to it being talked about in apocalyptic terms. However, it has not turned out quite that way. On September 29th, the world passed the one million reported deaths mark (the true figure will…
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