There may be more Coronavirus cases than reported in Africa – WHO

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The Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed there may be more cases than reported in Africa after the continent recorded 17 deaths from the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

Ghebreyesus made the revelation at the Press briefing of the deadly  Coronavirus which has ravaged over 30 nations of the world including US, UK, Canada, France, Malaysia amongst others.

He said “You know as of today (March 18), the number of cases reported from sub-Saharan Africa are 233 cases and four deaths, that is actually in terms of confirmed cases, it is the lowest region.

“But as Mike said, we cannot take this number as the amount of, or the number of cases we have in Africa, probably we have undetected cases or unreported cases. But in addition to that, even if we take this 233 cases as true, we have to prepare for the worst.

“In other countries we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point. So the best advice for Africa is to prepare for the worst and prepare today. It is actually better if these numbers are really true, to cut it from the bud.

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“And that is why we are saying we have to do the testing, we have to do the contact tracing, we have to do the isolation and cut it from the bud.

“I think Africa should wake up, I think my continent should wake up.”

 

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