Africa has to prevent an Indian-scaled Covid-19 tsunami hitting its shores – because curing it after it arrives is not an option, Dr John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention , has warned.
India broke another record this week, with 412,262 new infections and 3,980 deaths on 6 May, bringing the total to 21.1 million cases and 230,168 deaths. He urged Africans to keep up the same public health measures to prevent the spread of all Covid-19 variants, including physical distancing and, above all, wearing masks – which, he likes to say, are as good as vaccines.
He said Africa had only received a total of 37.6 million vaccine doses, of which 22.2 million had been administered to just 1.1% of the continent’s population. This would include closer monitoring of the occurrence of the different coronavirus variant strains so far detected and identifying Covid-19 hotspots.
This would help prevent the “disastrous paradigm where health systems are overwhelmed. If you look at big cities like New Delhi, hospital beds are 80% to 90% full. If you looks at ICUs, almost 100% of them in those cities are being consumed by the Covid-19 situation.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
JvanLogg It sorts the wheat from the chaff..sad, but a fact. Nature at work.
... When the Doctor says it, it has to count for something - he is a credible source whn it comes to this things. Prblm is whn ordinary folks raise same concern, we get harangued abt Indian Traditional Funerals. Not bng alarmist, once it's here - tears wll be shed. No exception.
Hope ppl read the article and begin to heed the warning by the good old doctor. It says the Covid strain ravaging India has already reached Uganda, Kenya ND Morocco. Strain now isolated thr, but Continent wld do well not to drop its guard - once it accelerates here: DISASTER.
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