Melinda said her heart was in Africa, adding that she is worried that the continent might not be able to handle the devastating effect of the virus. But in his end of the year note, Bill said he was happy his prediction about Africa has not happened, “One thing I am happy to have been wrong about at least, I hope I was wrong is my fear that COVID-19 would run rampant in low-income countries.
In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, case rates and death rates remain much lower than in the U.S.or Europe and on par with New Zealand, which has received so much attention for its handling of the virus.”The hardest-hit country on the continent is South Africa but even there, the case rate is 40 percent lower than in the U.S., and the death rate is nearly 50 percent lower.”We do not have enough data yet to understand why the numbers are not as high as I worried they would get but gave probable reasons Africa was not as affected as expected”.
Meanwhile, Nigeria is currently fighting the second wave of the coronavirus. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had last week announced a second wave of the dreaded virus. They are to remain at home for five weeks following the second wave of the COVID-19 disease in Nigeria. Nigeria currently has a total of 82,747 confirmed cases in the country.
Source: https://dailypost.ng