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Africa's demographics have worked in its favour during the pandemic. The median age is 19·5 years. Of the 1·3 billion people who live on the continent, only 6 million are older than 80 years. There is not a huge burden of diabetes or obesity.
Africa's demographics have worked in its favour during the pandemic. The median age is 19·5 years. Of the 1·3 billion people who live on the continent, only 6 million are older than 80 years. There is not a huge burden of diabetes or obesity.
WHO reckons that 65–85% of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Africa do not produce any symptoms. “We are missing many cases, but we are not seeing a lot of people who are getting sick or severely ill, and we are not hearing of there being a high impact on hospitals or graveyards”,
explained Thierno Balde, deputy incident manager for emergency response at the WHO Regional office for Africa (Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo). After the third wave peaked in July, 2021, there has been a steady decline in new cases of COVID-19 across Africa,
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