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‘Africa must prepare for second COVID wave’

‘Africa must prepare for second COVID wave’

GUILIA PARAVICINI and DUNCAN MIRIRI COVID-19 cases are accelerating in some parts of Africa and governments should step up preparations for a second wave, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Over the past four weeks, cases have increased by 45% per week on average in Kenya, by 19% in the Democratic Republic of Congo and by 8% in Egypt, the African Union-run organisation's head John Nkengasong said. "The time to prepare for a second wave is truly now," he said, urging governments "not to get into prevention fatigue mode." The continent of 1.3 billion people…
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