The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that while Africa so far had seen few cases of COVID-19, the continent should “prepare for the worst”.
“Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in a virtual news conference.
Tedros said that to date, 233 cases of the new coronavirus had been registered in sub-Saharan Africa and four people had died, making it the least-affected region in a global pandemic that has infected 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 cases,” he said.
And even if there truly were no more than 233 cases of the disease in Africa, he warned that that number could scale up quickly.
Source: Guardian Newspaper
