How world sees SA: Leading Africa in tracking, fighting Covid-19 – Wall Street Journal
According to the Wall Street Journal, South Africa has conducted more than 3.5 million Covid-19 tests for its 60 million people. It may also sign a deal to help produce a Covid-19 vaccine, potentially boosting access to immunisation for many. However, across other parts of the African continent, the real scale of the virus is unknown. Chaos reigns in hospitals as dozens of people die waiting to be tested and others die before receiving their results. Countries like Niger, Guinea and Tanzania have carried out a limited number of tests, and Tanzania has actually stopped providing global health bodies with data altogether. It has many experts wondering: what is the real toll of Covid in Africa? – Claire Badenhorst
In the world's coronavirus blind spot, fears of a silent epidemic
By Nicholas Bariyo and Joe Parkinson*
The global scramble to thwart the coronavirus has a vast blind spot: sub-Saharan Africa.
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