O B SH: Africa is facing heavy days of pandemic

“Vala of pandemic is moving rapidly and continues to gain new ground”, said on July 8th, Matshidisto Moeti, O regional director BSH for Africa.

As early as May 3rd, when it is estimated that the third wave of pandemic has begun in Africa, coronary cases are increasing. During the past week, more than 251,000 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on the continent, an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous week.

In 10 out of 16 African states, the most contagious version of the Coronobrus, which O The BSH named it Delta.

South Africa is the most hit country in Africa, with about 26 thousand daily cases, mainly with the version Delta.

The vaccine rate remains low, since only 16 million people or about 2 percent of the African population have been vaccinated with two doses.

But, Moet said there could be optimism as there is an increase in vaccine remittances.

In the past two weeks, more than 1.6 million doses were distributed in Africa through the Covax scheme, which has been designed to ensure equal distribution of vaccines to poor countries.

Soon in 49 poor countries, 20 million vaccines from the United States are expected to reach.

Norway and Sweden have also pledged donations. It says rel. Africa has so far received 66 million doses and injected 50 million of them.

According to recent figures, Africa has officially registered 5,730,638 cases of COVID-19 and 147,125 deaths.