Is Africa The Next Covid-19 Hot-Spot?

 

Reuters: India's COVID-19 emergency is wake-up call to Africa -AU health chief 

NAIROBI (Reuters) -The raging state of the COVID-19 pandemic is India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union's disease control agency warned on Thursday. 

African nations generally do not have sufficient numbers of health care workers, hospital beds, oxygen supplies, and the continent of 1.3 billion would be even more overwhelmed than India if cases surged in a similar way, said John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. 

"We are watching with total disbelief...What is happening in India cannot be ignored by our continent," he told reporters. 

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WNU Editor: The people that I trust when it comes to Covid-19 are telling me that the next hot-spot after India will be Nigeria. 

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