The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are the United States, Brazil, India and Russia — the same four that have been at the top for months. The US surprised the world when it rose to the top spot in multiple COVID-19 statistics, both for the total number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths. Since then, no other country has surpassed America.

But scientists who are studying the pandemic have also identified another surprise of the pandemic. Some expected the African continent to be affected most heavily by the virus, but that wasn’t the case. South Africa stands out when it comes to the number of total cases, with nearly 631,000 infections. But fewer than 15,000 people have died of COVID-19. These figures are puzzling scientists looking to understand how the virus behaves and how it can be beaten.

The hypothesis that poverty should have a significant impact on the spread of the virus doesn’t stand when it comes to the entire African continent. Developing countries like Brazil and India showed that the virus couldn’t be contained once it reached densely populated, but poor, neighborhoods.


Experts expected the same thing to happen in Africa, but it didn’t. If anything, Africa is doing better than any other continent, both when it comes to cases and casualties. As BBC News explains, even if those numbers are significantly underreported, Africa still has it much better than other continents right now.

“I thought we were heading towards a disaster, a complete meltdown,” Professor Shabir Madhi told BBC News. The UK’s top virologist echoed what others must have thought about the African coronavirus outbreak. But South Africa’s death rate is almost seven times lower than in the UK.

Salim Abdool Karim, the head of the country’s COVID-19 response team, told the BBC that “most African countries don’t have a peak,” which is surprising. “I don’t understand why. I’m completely at sea,” he added.


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Still a mystery. Abuja is next to Lagos in confirmed cases but yet people don't care. If we are to look at people's attitude, we are suppose to be carrying dead bodies but some how things are still normal.

Simple rampart abuse of antimalarials and the weather

Most likely age long surferings of various diseases, both known and unknown have augmented most Africans ability to develope some kind of immunity against covid19, my opinion (hypothesis) though.

The ogogoro nd different combination wey we dey consume for Africa alone sef no fit allow Corona stay body.. People wey dey bath with Salt nd drink am at the same time

Na Baba God o!

This must be God.

God is our refuge in Africa. Science can't save Europe and America from deadly coronavirus but God has saved Africa. The little we recorded is to prove to them that Africa is not immune to the disease but it's God himself that help us.

The only outbreak na the ncdc business version

preciousademc3:
Still a mystery. Abuja is next to Lagos in confirmed cases but yet people don't care. If we are to look at people's attitude, we are suppose to be carrying dead bodies but some how things are still normal.

I fully agree with you on this

Herbs and Monkey Tail
Gegemu and Palmwine

Immune System legit

Pls let them keep their vaccine to themselves
We don't need it.

They are too worried, hope they aren’t planning something different..?

Truth is, the virus is all over, I can say more than half of Nigerians contacted it, myself inclusive. Our saving grace is that we are all used to malaria. Since the symptoms are malaria plus flu, our body tends to build a resistance to it.

Perhaps because we survived malaria..

What is corona for where malaria dey.. �

u mean the ncdc scam
ohh I forgot that govt spent 20 billion containing covid

I'm sure a lot of people contracted this virus and didn't show any symptoms, even infect others.... But our immune system is the saving grace.

The 'I don't care attitude' of people were alarming. People have even stopped using facemask in the market now... They will tell you there's nothing like Coronavirus.


Maybe na wetin the virus hear be that wey he run away.

BafanaBafana:
Truth is, the virus is all over, I can say more than half of Nigerians contacted it, myself inclusive. Our saving grace is that we are all used to malaria. Since the symptoms are malaria plus flu, our body tends to build a resistance to it.

You have a point.....we suffer and recover from malaria yearly many times even without treatment. Our immune has become used to it.

They think Africans are their mates!

What that Nigerian American doctor said come to mind,malaria medication is the bomb.

An Igbo adage says- "The cow that has no tail, it is God that chases away flies from harrassing it"

All thanks to uncle mosquito for building our immune system in Africa

PROUDIGBO:
They think Africans are their mates!

They don know .

Melanin.....but they no go talk am.

Na so una go dey dey confused o.

flu-like diseases do not strive in Hot African climate

If only people have spiritual eyes to see that there are angels stationed within the atmosphere of the entire Africa Continent since the outbreak was declared. They are constantly clearing the smoke in our sky since then.

Physical science can't give you the answer you want always.

It's natural immunity 9 out of 10 Nigerians have malaria in their blood and we dey carry am waka,nothing dey happen but over there malaria if not properly treated is deadly,ask them mungo park when they first arrived africa

You see how this white does things to dehumanize Africa. Instead of praising Africa for the low death they have to say the reason is because of POVERTY. They try to attach every negative things to Africa. They don't want Africa to have a lead of any good things I pity us

muykem:
God is our refuge in Africa. Science can't save Europe and America from deadly coronavirus but God has saved Africa. The little we recorded is to prove to them that Africa is not immune to the disease but it's God himself that help us.

Man wey Sabi.

Immunity nothing more. We've suffered more than this and our bodies have formed resistance to it.

It's not melanin. Southern Indians and the Afro Americans dying in great nos have it.

We still thank God cos it would have been disastrous.

Nowadays, nobody wears facemasks anymore