“‘Peak yet to come’: Africa hits one million coronavirus cases” Reads the headline on Aljazeera announcing the news that Africa has finally surpassed a million Coronavirus cases, “Amid lack of testing, real spread of virus on continent unknown,” reads the subheadline signifying how the low rates of Coronavirus transmission and death in Africa compared to their predictions have pained westerners.
Coronavirus has now infected more than one million people in the African continent, however, westerners are at it again this time dimming the hopes of millions of Africans by reporting that the pandemic is yet to peak while also spreading fear of a second wave.
Nations across the continent have recorded 1,000,054 infections and at least 21,724 deaths, accounting for around five percent of global cases, Just five countries account for 75 percent of all cases in Africa, statistics which have mind-boggled “experts”.
“We haven’t seen the peak in Africa yet,” Mary Stephen, technical officer at the WHO’s regional office for Africa. “Since countries started relaxing lockdown measures, we have seen an increasing number of cases and most of these – more than 80 percent – are coming largely from 10 countries,” she said.
The virus has spread to all 54 countries on the continent of 1.2 billion people, stretching already fragile healthcare systems and crippling economies. South Africa has notched up more than 529,000 infections, 53 percent of the continental caseload, and the fifth-biggest in the world.
Egypt is in second place with 95,000 confirmed infections, followed by Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, Morocco and Kenya.
However, experts say the numbers are cooked and that the actual extent of the contagion is being underestimated because of a lack of testing and poor access to data, to prove this point, one of the papers recently published mass graves in somalia claiming the governmet was not being transparent with the numbers, however, it was later established that the graves are not covid-19 victims.
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