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It is said that there are about 10,000 total patients in the African continent, but there are many more undiscovered confirmed patients. Nevertheless, in some countries, leaders who must take the lead in preventing the spread of viruses are not showing up at all.

This is a correspondent for Lee Dae-wook, Cairo.

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President Paul Villa Cameroon has not been in public for more than a month.

Even rumors of "died in Corona 19."

It turned out that when Corona 19 spread, he fled to his hometown 180 km from the capital.

It is now known that even government meetings do not preside.

Nigerian President Bukhari went to Europe for the treatment of new recruits last month.

It wasn't revealed until recently, and it only appeared on TV recently.

The total number of confirmed patients in Africa is 10,000, and the situation is relatively good compared to other continents.

However, there are many observations that the number of infected individuals will be several tens of the official count due to the lack of a screening system.

What's more, considering the poor level of medical care in Africa, it is difficult to measure the impact that is coming.

[Alyona Shinenko / International Red Cross Spokesperson: I am concerned about how to deal with this situation with a collapsed and fragile medical system due to conflict and conflict over the past decade.]

The Central African Republic has reported that there are only three ventilators in the country, and in Zimbabwe, doctors operate without gloves due to lack of medical equipment.

In addition, as the shortage of borders and the ban on traffic has increased the shortage of supplies, people in poor African countries are even more worried about starvation than corona infection.

(Video coverage: Kim Boo-young, Video editing: Oh-young Oh)