Recently filled graves are seen in the Olifantsveil Cemetery outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Aug. 5, 2020. The frequency of burials in South Africa has significantly increased during the coronavirus pandemic, as the country became one of the top five worst-hit nation. New infection numbers around the world are a reminder that a return to normal life is still far from sight.
The World Health Organization calls the milestone a “pivotal point” for Africa as infections in several countries are surging. The virus has spread beyond major cities “into distant hinterlands” where few health resources exist and reaching care could take days.Immediately knowing they were at a disadvantage, African nations banded together early in the pandemic to pursue badly needed testing and medical supplies andto any successful vaccine. Swift border closures delayed the virus’ spread.
Just two African countries at the start of the pandemic were equipped to test for the virus. Now virtually all have basic capacity, but supplies are often scarce. Some countries have a single testing machine. Some conduct fewer than 500 tests per million people, while richer countries overseas conduct hundreds of thousands. Samples can take days to reach labs. Even in South Africa, turnaround times for many test results have been a week or longer.
For Resolve to Save Lives senior vice president Amanda McClelland, the more worrying number is not the overall cases but the health workers infected across Africa — now about 35,000. That affects care for everyone on a continent whose shortage of workers has been called catastrophic. In Burkina Faso, Yaya Ouedraogo lost his uncle and cousin in April. Both were in their 70s with a history of high blood pressure and diabetes, and both had complained of shortness of breath, fever and body pain, he said.
Save lives ...🙏🙏💖
BS
Africa is an entire continent. How about treating its countries they way we treat all other countries. FFS.
Could be 5.25 million dead.
EVERY CONTINENT’s true number is MUCH higher. Control in an illusion
Africa belong to China , they should ask Xi for help and thank him for it
Africa... the entire continent just hit 1 million? Looks like they are doing something right
That what piss me off, Africa is not a fucking countries.
_Africa Africa surpasses 1 million...so what does that mean...what does anyone do with that information? are we comparing COVID cases by continents now? This is just media sensationalism. AP can do better.
Who cares anymore...... it is here to stay ...... who wants to live like this ...... there are many things we can die from or get sick from ...... constant fear ...... that is how we live everyday!
Still these group of countries which composed the contenant Africa nanaged to do a better job than most of the '1st world countries' with as closed to nothing in medical supplies & gears....
And they mention names for a piece of Asia which they consider a Continent (read Europe).
Africa has very high use of Hydroxychloroquine. It's available over the counter in most countries. It's why the virus will never kill people at the same rate as say New York or New Jersey...Africa already makes use of an effective treatment.
how many have the flu? yeah, that's what i thought....
How would they know? Plus or minus a mill
Oh f*ck off
Do you know how big Africa is? Its the second biggest continent. There are some countries in Africa that have done a tremendous job dealing with the pandemic and others that haven't as much...so I see it as irresponsible to group them all into one study.
Orange is the new BlackDeath
All this stuff I heard about Africa being immune and then this. Coverup
If they get the Bill Gates vax, they are doomed...
Total BS - no way the numbers are that high in Africa - the dems say it's only bad in America.
It’s a whole damn continent...
There’s 1.2B people in Africa and only 1M cases. Guess if you tested more, you’d find more. Just like Trump said.
Duh! In every country covid is in the actual numbers (as revealed by serology studies) show it's much higher than official reported cases. Often by 10 times or more.
Ah, once again treating Africa as one entity.
Why do we report on a continent in one part of the world but countries in others?
1 million x 2 or 3 then 💔
Probably more than 5 million cases in Africa already.
But but but.......the Democrats say all the other countries have this under control. Only the Trumpster can't control this.
Classic manipulation here. “Counts are higher “ - this is how tinpot autocrats justify draconian measures.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that everywhere’s total is probably higher than officially stated.
America is 4.8million cases.
Send them HCQ!!
But Dr. Trump said the heat kills it...hmmm
Now do AIDS
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