Which parts of Africa will be hit hardest by covid-19?

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Data indicate that health risks from covid-19 will be fairly evenly spread across African countries, despite variations in wealth

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WHEN COVID-19 struck Lombardy, the Italian government was quick to lock down large swathes of the economy—first in the region, and then across the entire country. Lacking a vaccine, many other rich countries have adopted similar measures to slow the spread of the disease. Although these measures have helped contain the virus in Europe and East Asia, developing countries remain exposed. Covid-19 is proliferating across Latin America, South Asia and Africa.

The foundation’s research offers a silver lining of sorts. Its model estimates that Africa’s covid-19 infection fatality rate (IFR), ie, the share of people who would die if they were infected with the disease as opposed to officially diagnosed, falls somewhere between 0.1% and 0.15%. America’s IFR, in comparison, has been estimated at around five times as high. But caution is in order. Research by the Center for Global Development, another non-profit organisation, paints a less rosy view.

The true number of coronavirus infections and deaths from covid-19 in most African countries will, however, probably never be known. All, or nearly all, do not

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Most western scholars failed to understand that in Africa, let’s say Nigeria the Government has never work for them, so the impact of COVID-19 may not be really felt by the people unlike western countries that provided palliatives for their citizenry nothing like that in Nigeria

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