Covid-19 Could Kill over 300,000 Africans, UN Agency Warns
A United Nations (UN) agency estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic could kill at least 300,000 people in Africa.
UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Friday also said the pandemic could push 29 million other Africans into abject poverty and called for a $100 billion safety net for the continent.
So far, the 54 African countries have confirmed a combined 20,036 cases of Covid-19 with Egypt leading in the number of infections with (2,844), followed by South Africa (2,783), Morocco (2,670), Algeria (2,418) and Cameroon (1,017).
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the number of infections in Africa could hit 10 million in three to six months.
“To protect and build towards our shared prosperity at least $100 billion is needed to immediately resource a health and social safety net response,” the UNECA report stated.
UNECA said if certain interventions are not made, over 1.2 billion Africans would be infected with Covid-19 and 3.3 million would die this year. Africa’s total population is about 1.3 billion.
“We estimate that between 5 million and 29 million people will be pushed below the extreme poverty line of $1.90 per day owing to the impact of COVID-19,” the report said.
For instance, UNECA said Nigeria alone will lose between $14 billion and $19.2 billion in revenues from oil exports this year.
Comments (5)
What was their estimate for Europe and US?
The figure above amounts to an African a average of about 6,000 deaths per country. Whoa!!!!!!😃 Ishindwe kabisa kwa Damu ya YESU!!!.🙏
They are using Africans as lab rats for the vaccine so that they can reverse engineer the disease to target Africans and drastically decrease Africas population. Why did Melinda gates say "your going to see dead bodies in countries of Africa? We all know the ID2020, vaccine agenda. Bill and Melinda gates foundation owns W.H.O.....oh didn't Melinda gates visit Uhuru at statehouse just the other day...sisi kwisha!!
When will Africa ever kick these NGOs out who do nothing but play monkey games on Africa. Africa needs to cut the cord sooner rather than later. You can not have foreigners talking about how you are gonna die yet vitu kwa ground nī different. They must have a plan on how Africans will die. They want them to die.
Come on, Bill Gates is a gentleman. He funds lots of health activities in Africa, more than Africa's corrupt governments do. The deaths has surpassed those estimates in several western countries. The vaccines are already being tested elsewhere, even on humans. Let's not be alarmists for the sake of it.