The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Africa could become the next epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak.
”There have been almost 1,000 deaths and more than 18,000 infections across Africa so far, although these rates are far lower than those seen in parts of Europe and the US but the virus appears to be spreading away from African capitals,” WHO added.
She said they were focusing on prevention rather than treating the virus because African countries don’t have the capacity to treat many Coronavirus patients.
Moeti said, “We want to minimize the proportion of people who get to the point of needing critical care in an ICU, because we know that these types of facilities are not adequate by any means in the majority of African countries.”
”For patients critically ill with COVID-19, access to a ventilator could be a matter of life or death,” she added.
Recall that one of the first recorded deaths from Coronavirus in Africa was a Zimbabwean journalist, Zororo Makamba who died in March.
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