ADDIS ABABA - The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday that African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent.
The outbreak which began in December has already killed more than 2,300 people and infected over 76,000 in China. But if Covid-19 starts to spread on the continent, African health systems will struggle to treat patients suffering from symptoms such as respiratory failure, septic shock and multi-organ failure, WHO's Mr Tedros said.
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