CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Africa has registered a 43% jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicenter of the global outbreak.
John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in his weekly briefing Thursday that Africa also has a “very, very limited” and “very, very strained” testing capacity.
He said that means the surge in infections is likely to be even higher. WHO’s recent report painted a grim picture for Africa. It warned the virus could kill more than 300,000 people and push 30 million into desperate poverty. Nkengasong said Africa still has time to avert such a disaster but testing people and tracing virus cases is critical.
Testing, inadequate healthcare, packed slums, inadequate public health education, no vaccine, no drugs. My heart goes out to those folks. It’s going to be bad.
And that’s just the United States.
Africa is going to be far, far worse.
WH: “Shithole continents do not factor into our realm of concern. Don’t they have governors who can be responsible for testing and tracing? Let them do their best, and the world can be here to back them up. Except for the nasty people at the WHO - they have no idea what they are doing at that place, so we have no use for them, and neither should the people of Nambia and all those other states over there.”
Great time to defund the WHO.