WHO Says Covid Is Spreading In Africa At A Record Pace

The East African/AFP: Covid spreading in Africa at record pace, says WHO

The Delta variant of coronavirus is driving the pandemic forward in Africa at record speeds, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Infection numbers have increased in Africa for six weeks running, rising by a quarter week-on-week to almost 202,000 in the week that ended Sunday, it said.

The continent's weekly record currently stands at 224,000 new cases.

Deaths rose by 15 percent across 38 African countries to nearly 3,000 in the same period. "The speed and scale of Africa's third wave is like nothing we've seen before," Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said in a statement.

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