The myth of an Africa bypassed by the Covid epidemic is gradually collapsing.
The continent still displays extremely enviable statistics with 5.4 million cases and just over 141,000 deaths - including 60,000 in South Africa alone - but everything now suggests that these figures are massively underestimated
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This will only come as a surprise to discerning observers as the worrying signals had existed for months.
Last summer, the universities of Lusaka and Boston conducted a study in the mortuary in the Zambian capital.
Published in the
British Medical Journal
, it showed that out of 364 bodies, 19% were carriers of the virus.
However, only five people had tested positive before dying ...
Less discreet victims
But it is undoubtedly the heavy price paid by the African political and intellectual elite in this epidemic which constituted the main signal of a virus circulating at a level much higher than that measured.
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