Africa's confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 1 million, a Reuters tally showed on Thursday, as the disease began to spread rapidly through a continent whose relative isolation has so far spared it the worst of the pandemic.
JOHANNESBURG - Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 1 million, a Reuters tally showed on Thursday, as the disease began to spread rapidly through a continent whose relative isolation has so far spared it the worst of the pandemic.
Low levels of testing in many countries mean Africa’s infection rates are likely to be higher than reported, experts said. A nurse at a hospital in South Africa’s biggest township of Soweto, who declined to be named because she was not authorised to speak to the media, said patients were sometimes left lying next to a corpse for hours because there weren’t enough staff to remove it. More than a third of staff caught the virus on duty.South Africa’s experiences are a precursor for what is likely to happen across the continent, the World Health Organization’s top emergencies expert Mike Ryan warned last month.
Steve Ahuka, a senior member of Congo’s response committee, said the country had chosen to focus on treating the sick rather than trying to track the disease.Africa’s younger population when compared to other continents may help curb death rates, as the virus is most deadly for older people. But governments, mindful of the damage to their economies and the risk of widespread hunger, have mostly lifted lockdowns.
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