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Anonymous ID: 9b287b April 2, 2020, 9:31 a.m. No.8661960   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2052 >>2154 >>2461

Africa has been spared so far from coronavirus. Why?

 

Some 24 countries apart from China have registered cases of the coronavirus, now officially named COVID-19. None of them are in Africa, despite the increasingly tight links between the two regions. DW explores why.

About 2 million Chinese live and work on the African continent. Africans are also increasingly visiting China for business and study.

 

Before the novel coronavirus outbreak — which is centered on China's Hubei region and its provincial capital of Wuhan — about eight flights a day operated between China and African nations.

 

Chinese travelers made up the biggest group of customers on Ethiopian Airlines, Africa's largest carrier, according to Quartz Africa.

 

This booming travel between China and Africa is a possible route for transmission of the new coronavirus, which has killed 1,369 people and infected 46,997 globally, according to the latest WHO figures.

 

So why has Africa been spared so far?

 

https://www.dw.com/en/africa-has-been-spared-so-far-from-coronavirus-why/a-52382666

 

Why is Covid-19 not affecting Africa?

Updated Mar 17, 2020 · Author has 1.3k answers and 1.3m answer views

 

As the number of Covid-19 cases continue to multiply across all continents, one thing is becoming clear.

 

The Corona virus is very slow to spread to Africa, and the few cases that has been reported __are foreigners traveling into__f African countries.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Covid-19-not-affecting-Africa?share=1

 

Chloroquine in Africa: critical assessment and recommendations for monitoring and evaluating chloroquine therapy efficacy in sub‐Saharan Africa

Africa is facing what may well be one of its greatest public health challenges, the intensifying drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum. Tropical Africa accounts for more than 90% of the 300–500 million clinical cases of malaria occurring each year (WHO 1996).

Chloroquine has been the most frequently used drug for the first‐line treatment of malaria infections,

in spite of the widespread occurrence of chloroquine‐resistant P. falciparum

 

>fake News New York Times

Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve

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>Can't quite put my finger on why so few cases in Africa

Anonymous ID: 9b287b April 2, 2020, 10:05 a.m. No.8662337   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2375

>>8662052

>shit ton

>>8662154

 

>Intertwined

>Africa has large numbers of Chinese workers, many now returning to the continent after visits to China for the Lunar New Year.

>some of the 81,000 African students who have been studying in China are now heading home.

 

Africa was largely spared in 2002 and 2003 when the SARS virus, which also originated in China, spread around the world, killing nearly 800 people and infecting more than 8,000, mostly in China and Hong Kong.

Africa reported only one case, in South Africa.

Wonder why?

Weird

 

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