A boy tries to wear a face mask as members of Coalition for grassroots human rights defenders Kenya work for their food distribution, a bag contains 2kg of maize flour, 1kg each of sugar and rice, soap, tea, salt and a face mask, to vulnerable families that have lost their income in the menace of the COVID 19 coronavirus in Mathare slum, Nairobi, on April 25, 2020.
“African countries are doing their best, despite… limitations,” such as weak health systems, Mary Stephen of the WHO Africa office, told AFP Friday.“Because we don’t see many people like we used to see in Italy, like 1,000 people dying , people tend to relax, they think the risk is not so much in Africa”.Countries with high infections relative to the size of their populations include South Africa, Djibouti, Gabon, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe.
Its problems include more than 24,000 infected health workers — a tally bigger than the national caseload of many other African countries.Egypt became the first African country to report a coronavirus case on February 14. So far, it has officially registered the continent’s second highest number of cases at 95,006, including 4,630 deaths.
However, the country’s health system has been severely strained and came close to “collapsing”, according to the doctors’ union, which recorded at least 134 deaths among its members due to COVID-19.Regular domestic and international air traffic resumed on July 1 and tourism, a key income generator for Egypt, is slowly picking up.Around 45,244 cases have been recorded in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, as well as more than 930 deaths.
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