The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Africa
could become the next epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak.
The organization stated that the continent does not have
enough ventilators to deal with the pandemic and there was a sharp rise in
cases in the past weeks.
”There have been almost 1,000 deaths and more than 18,000
infections across Africa so far, although these rates are far lower than those
seen in parts of Europe and the US but the virus appears to be spreading away
from African capitals,” WHO added.
The organization’s Africa Director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti,
told the BBC that the organization had witnessed the virus spreading from
capital cities to “the hinterland,” in South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast,
Cameroon and Ghana.
Moeti said, “We want to minimize the proportion of people
who get to the point of needing critical care in an ICU, because we know that
these types of facilities are not adequate by any means in the majority of
African countries.”
“I have to say the issue of ventilators is one of the
biggest challenges that the countries are facing.
”For patients critically ill with COVID-19, access to a
ventilator could be a matter of life or death,” she added.
Recall that one of the first recorded deaths from
Coronavirus in Africa was a Zimbabwean journalist, Zororo Makamba who died in
March.
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