Is Africa making good progress in containing and eventually defeating the COVID-19 pandemic as countries begin lifting restrictions?
Is Africa making good progress in containing and eventually defeating the COVID-19 pandemic as countries begin lifting restrictions?
So far, the picture is not clear and much more needs to be done to safely open up economies and societies.
Before African leaders engage in a mad rush to reopen all facets of society and economy, they should sufficiently assess their local and regional conditions and consider a few issues, else any negative effect of their decisions will be considered a reckless abandon, and haunt them into eternity, not only political oblivion. This reopening of economy and society comes at the time of rising positive cases of the virus on the continent, even if at a slower rate than experienced elsewhere. Except African leaders want to pursue herd immunity, for which preliminary results from elsewhere would suggest that to reach 60-70% of the population contracting the virus will be at the expense of several fold deaths than currently registered in the region.