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Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.



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Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.


But across all of Africa, just two cases have surfaced — a tally that has health specialists scratching their heads, given the continent’s close economic ties with China.

“This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases,” said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.

“The current figures could be the reality, it’s hard to know. Maybe it’s because Africa is not that connected.”



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NEWS
Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.


But across all of Africa, just two cases have surfaced — a tally that has health specialists scratching their heads, given the continent’s close economic ties with China.

“This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases,” said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.

“The current figures could be the reality, it’s hard to know. Maybe it’s because Africa is not that connected.”


Thumbi Ndung’u, director of a Durban-based infectious disease research centre, SANTHE, said “I don’t think anybody knows” why Africa so far appeared to be unscathed.

He also speculated that it could be “there isn’t much travel to that particular part of China from Africa — back and forth”.

Or “it could just be a coincidence,” said Ndung’u.

https://punchng.com/coronavirus-experts-wonder-why-africa-seems-to-have-few-cases/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Has any black man contacted it so far ?

Na because we sabi pray...

For this one we leave am for una.....


We have enough to deal with.


Imagine adding Corona virus to this buhari we are carrying

Even with this Coronavirus, 96.486% of Nigerian youths will prefer to stay in China than Nigeria.

As soon as they find out

The biological weapons engineers will modify the source code and unleash it for all and sundry in the motherland

God pass them

One reason might be our inability to keep records and do proper autopsies. People might be dying from Covid 19 but in typical African fashion, na village people do you.

Another is flus in general do not seem to thrive in our hot climates. Most flu epidemics {H1N1 virus of 1918-1919, 1957-1958 Pandemic (H2N2 virus), 1968 Pandemic (H3N2 virus), 2009 H1N1 Pandemic (H1N1pdm09 virus)}, all seem to have missed us, and flus in general are not as common as they appear to be in cold Europe, where they only seem to occur in the cold seasons and not in summer.

Then there's the fact that we pray a lot, which would be my joke reason since I have no evidence that we pray more than some countries that have been affected, though countries that pray just as much as we do, like those in Latin America, also seem to be saved from Covid 19 and influenza, on the whole. But Europe prayed just as much in the past and were not saved from the plagues then, so I doubt prayer helps much.

But, all this is me speculating and I really can't say I know.

JOSIG:


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NEWS
Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.



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NEWS
Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.


But across all of Africa, just two cases have surfaced — a tally that has health specialists scratching their heads, given the continent’s close economic ties with China.

“This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases,” said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.

“The current figures could be the reality, it’s hard to know. Maybe it’s because Africa is not that connected.”



7'
NEWS
Coronavirus: Experts wonder why Africa seems to have few cases
Published February 27, 2020

Doctors treating a Coronavirus patient Source: newsdesk

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why.

More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.


But across all of Africa, just two cases have surfaced — a tally that has health specialists scratching their heads, given the continent’s close economic ties with China.

“This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases,” said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.

“The current figures could be the reality, it’s hard to know. Maybe it’s because Africa is not that connected.”


Thumbi Ndung’u, director of a Durban-based infectious disease research centre, SANTHE, said “I don’t think anybody knows” why Africa so far appeared to be unscathed.

He also speculated that it could be “there isn’t much travel to that particular part of China from Africa — back and forth”.

Or “it could just be a coincidence,” said Ndung’u.

https://punchng.com/coronavirus-experts-wonder-why-africa-seems-to-have-few-cases/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I hope they will not come to Africa for sample

How I wish this has somethingto do with our pigmentation let the people with other pigments appreciate God for once.

Well, our God is great.
I just can't imagine that disease affecting us here with its funny symptoms and causes.
Buhari and Boko-Haram is already enough for us to manage.

God bless Nigeria.