AFRICA recorded an additional 1 million coronavirus cases in the past month, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa said Thursday.
Matshidiso Moeti said it “is the shortest time it’s taken so far to add one million cases.”
“Comparatively, it took around three months to move from 4 million to 5 million cases,” she said.
Moeti said 18 African countries are now in resurgence. The Delta variant, which is currently the most transmissible of all variants, has been detected in 21 countries.
“As this surge sweeps across Africa, we are witnessing the brutal cost in lives lost. Deaths have climbed steeply for the past five weeks, jumping 40% in the past week,” she said.
Moeti said health systems that were already struggling to provide essential services to communities prior to the pandemic, are now buckling under the pressure of the virus.
“We’ve seen hospital admissions in around 10 countries
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