CORONAVIRUS OP-ED: South Africa’s world-class fight against Covid19: The data tells the story By Marcus Hollington and Monique Bennett
The two-week lockdown extension in South Africa comes at a time when the country has become the epicentre of Covid-19 in Africa with 2,173 cases, the highest number of cases reported on the continent. This figure should not be regarded as a cause of concern, but rather be viewed in the context of transparency facilitated by the country’s advanced healthcare system, which may not be the best in the world, but is a pioneer in the African landscape.
In contrast to the rest of the world, South Africa’s efforts to flatten the curve have been nothing short ofcoming in second to Algeria, attesting to the advantage of implementing physical distancing and lockdown measures in a timely manner to curb the spread of Covid-19. This is illustrated by Figure 1. According to the graph, Australia ranked third, Japan ranked fourth and Russia ranked fifth.
In the context of case fatality rates, countries with the highest number of Covid-19 cases are high for some countries and low for others. Algeria is currently the most affected country on the continent with a case fatality of 15.31% followed by Egypt, Morocco and Cameroon with case fatality rates of 7.49%, 7.15% and 1.46% respectively. South Africa ranks fifth in the sample of countries with a case fatality rate of 1.
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