Covid-19, so far so good?

Laura Laventure, psychologist.

RFI / Beverly Santu

By: Diara Ndiaye Follow

2 min

Europe is once again shaken by the Covid-19.

On the other hand, further south, if we cross the Mediterranean Sea, it is rather the opposite.

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Africa is at a turning point, overall it has been relatively spared from the pandemic, but in mid-October 2020, the number of weekly infections there increased on average by 7% and deaths by 8%, according to the African Center. disease prevention and control, while the epidemic curves on the continent have been declining for the past three months.

In numbers, the 55 AU states have yet to cross the 2 million Covid-19 case mark.

The virus has not disappeared, quite the contrary, but restrictions are increasingly lightened or even withdrawn in Africa.

How to learn to live with this virus?

Direction Niger, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Mali.

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