ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton with the latest news on COVID-19.cases have doubled in just two weeks to a quarter-million, and India on Saturday saw its biggest daily spike as its infections passed 800,000. The surging cases are raising sharp concerns about unequal treatment in the pandemic, as the wealthy hoard medical equipment and use private hospitals and the poor crowd into overwhelmed public facilities.
In Johannesburg, the epicenter of South Africa’s outbreak, badly needed oxygen concentrators that help COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe are hard to find as private businesses and individuals are buying them up, a publicMeanwhile, South Africa’s public hospitals are short on medical oxygen — and they are now seeing a higher proportion of deaths than private ones, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases says.
More than 8,000 health workers across Africa have been infected, half of them in South Africa. The continent of 1.3 billion has the world's lowest levels of health staffing and more than 560,000 cases, and the pandemic is reaching “full speed," the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.In India, which reported a new daily high of 27,114 cases on Saturday, nearly a dozen states have imposed a partial lockdown in high-risk areas.
“We now have strong doubts that the U.S. military has taken adequate disease prevention measures," Gov. Denny Tamaki told reporters. In Latin America, where inequality is sharp and Brazil and Peru are among the world's top five most badly hit countries, the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the continent's leadership, with two more presidents and powerful officials testing positive in the past week.
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ABC » / 🏆 471. in US S Africa is doomed.
Should fast track more vaccines
That’s very interesting or suspicious considering Africa had been among the lowest confirmed cases worldwide BEFORE vaccination trials began there a few weeks ago! coronavirus
Seems result of more testing. No2 undetected coming in surface. Feared will continue till August theen may be declind slowly. By this time drug and vaccine will come in the market
Must be Trump’s fault
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