Only one in almost 100 Covid19 cases may have been detected in Africa and about two-thirds of the continent’s inhabitants may have been infected with the disease, the WHO said. Moneyweb Coronavirus
Only one in almost 100 Covid-19 cases may have been detected in Africa and about two-thirds of the continent’s inhabitants may have been infected with the disease, the World Health Organization said. The assessment, which is available as a pre-print under peer review and is based on about 150 studies published in 2020 and 2021, shows how underreported the impact of the disease on the world’s poorest continent may have been.
That has stoked speculation, dismissed by most scientists, that Africans are less susceptible to Covid-19. Anecdotal evidence has shown hospitals from Lagos to Dar es Salaam and Harare being swamped with patients exhibiting Covid-19 symptoms in the midst of infection waves. Excess deaths, seen as a more accurate measure of Covid-19’s impact, exceed 300,000 in South Africa alone.
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