Harboursandports.com.Lagos: The Head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday
that while Africa had seen few cases of COVID-19 the continent should prepare
for the worst.
Africa should wake up, Tedros Abraham told journalists in a
virtual news conference.
Tedros said that to date, 233 cases of the new Coronavirus
had been registered in the Sub Saharan Africa and four people had died, making it
the least affected region in a global pandemic that has infeted more than
200,000 people and killed more than 8,000.
But he warned that the official numbers likely did not
reflect the full picture.
“Probably we have undetected cases or unreported case,” he
said.
And even if there truly were no more than 233 cases of the
disease in Africa, he warned that the number could scale up quickly.
“In other countries, we have seen how the virus actually
accelerates after certain tipping point, so the best advice for Africa is to
prepare for the worst and prepare today”, he said.
“WHOs recommendation is actually that mass gatherings should
be avoided,” he said, urging Africa to cut it from the bud expecting the worst
to happen”.
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