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Africa’s Covid-19 deaths fall by 94%

Africa’s Covid-19 deaths fall by 94%

BHARGAV ACHARYA and ALEXANDER WINNING DEATHS on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed. 2021 was the pandemic's most deadly year in Africa, with COVID-19 the seventh major cause of death, just below malaria. "Our latest analysis suggests that estimated deaths in the African region will shrink to around 60 a day in 2022. ... Last year, we lost an average of 970 people every day," WHO Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti told a virtual news conference. The gulf in the…
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