This time there is no longer any doubt: the dreaded third wave is here,

, and the figures are on the rise again. Worsened by the dissemination of the famous Delta variant initially identified in India, the contagion nevertheless affects the continent in a very heterogeneous way. The figures are thus quite worrying in the North, especially in Egypt and Tunisia (where we have just passed the milestone of 400,000

cases). Conversely, the situation in the Sahel and West Africa is much calmer, with the exception of Liberia and Sierra Leone where the figures for the end of June are worrying. But it is above the eastern and the southern part of the continent suffering now,

Young Africa.

In addition to South Africa, which was hit hard from the start of the pandemic, there are Rwanda, Kenya, Eritrea, the DRC (where the number of active cases for the past five weeks has quintupled) and, above all, , a particularly alarming trio of Uganda, Namibia and Zambia, the latter having reached the milestone of

2,000 deaths.

The problem is that this third wave comes when the continent has to face a shortage of vaccines,

.

Although eight vaccines have been shown to be safe and effective and have been placed on the WHO emergency vaccine list, shipments to Africa have dried up.

Only 15 million people - just 1.2% of Africa's population - are fully vaccinated, compared to 11% of people globally and over 46% of people in the UK and US.

"It's a race against time, the pandemic is ahead of us. In Africa, we are not winning the battle against the virus," warns John Nkengasong of CDC Africa.

Africa Point

An outbreak of cases in India, the main supplier of AstraZeneca vaccines, has delayed deliveries through the WHO Covax device. But in addition to the lack of supply, the continent has accumulated doubts and failures. Countries with vaccines have failed to administer them before they expire. Malawi destroyed nearly 20

000 expired doses.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan have returned more than two million.

Or South Africa had to destroy 2 million doses after a manufacturing error.

To date, 18 African countries have used up almost all of the vaccines sent by WHO.

cases and deaths are exploding 

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It must be recognized that, in view of the figures made public by the Ministry of Health and Social Action, Senegal has entered, on one level, in its 3rd wave of Covid-19,

WalfQuotidien. The proof, [this Wednesday], out of the

2,388 tests carried out by the Pasteur Institute in Dakar and the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training, 356 cases returned positive for the coronavirus, i.e. a positivity rate of 14.91%.

" we finally realize our level of public irresponsibility in the face of the management of the pandemic. Between economic tours (inopportune) and demonstrations of the "opposition, it is the average Senegalese who lose their lives. Our selfishness pushes us to ignore our collective responsibility", insists Cheikh Oumar Sy.

Before predicting the worst

:

"this wave will be more deadly than the previous ones".