On the afternoon of this Sunday, August 23, Africa already registers 1.2 million positive cases of coronavirus after having added almost five thousand in the last hours. The dead reach 27,719. The highest number of patients is registered in South Africa, with 607,045 positives and 13,000 deaths. Morocco, with more than 52,000 infected people and 888 who have lost their lives, has become news of the day when its Government has announced that the next school year 2020-2021, which begins on September 7, will be held remotely at all levels of the public and private sectors.
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Dozens of doctors in at least two of Kenya's 47 counties have gone on strike over late wages, a lack of PPE and health insurance. Kenya has 30,636 confirmed cases and 487 deaths. Doctors who contracted COVID-19 have been forced to pay out of pocket for their own treatment, says Allan Ochanji, vice president of the Kenya Doctors Union. "We have colleagues who have had to pay the bills, even though they contracted covid while on duty." Doctors in Nairobi, the capital, also warned on Friday that they would go on strike within a week if their demands were not met. Nairobi has the highest number of coronavirus cases.
Despite being the country with the most cases, the rate of incidence has slowed in South Africa, which is why the ban related to covid-19 on the sale of alcohol and tobacco products has been lifted. The controversial ban, which no other country jointly introduced, took effect when South Africa entered a strict national lockdown on March 27, 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus. At the same time, South Africa has launched a new trial to test in the country a potential vaccine against covid-19, in this case a treatment from the American laboratory Novavax that will be tested in parallel to the vaccine experiment at the University of Oxford , started last June.
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In Tunisia, covid-19 infections have almost doubled since it reopened its maritime and land borders on June 27, health authorities have warned. According to them, in the last month and a half, 983 new positive cases have been detected, 424 of them imported from abroad and 559 local. In addition, there have been six new deaths, which brings the number of deaths in the country to 56 since the disease began to be officially registered. Added to the local authorities' concern about the rise in infections are the criticisms of numerous local doctors and nurses who denounce that most of the cases are not counted or are treated as a simple flu. "Especially in hospitals and clinics in the southern provinces, which have fewer means and resources" and which offer a strangely low number of infections, a doctor in the coastal city of Monastir explained to EFE.
Ghana, a country in the Gulf of Guinea with some 28 million inhabitants, is no stranger to the chaotic situation caused by the coronavirus. The pandemic has already left more than 43,000 positive cases and almost 300 deaths, although both figures expire on a daily basis. But not everyone suffers it with the same harshness. Blind people have seen increased difficulties in a nation in which talking about problems and barriers is almost a constant for anyone.
The average number of daily COVID-19 infections in Africa declined last week, a "positive" sign, the director of the African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday. The average in Africa last week was 10,300 new cases a day, up from 11,000 the week before, John Nkengasong said at a news conference in Addis Ababa.
