Covid-19: In Africa, "most countries are going through the situation we have seen in India"

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Many countries in Africa are going through a third wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, as hospitals on the continent are increasingly saturated.

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By: Pierre Firtion Follow

6 mins

Oxygen shortages in many countries such as Algeria, saturated hospitals in Senegal, the World Health Organization which is worried about a fourth wave of Covid-19 in the Maghreb ... The health situation is worsening in the region. continent.

The number of contaminations in southern Africa, the Maghreb and to a lesser extent in West Africa continues to increase.

John Nkengasong, director of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is RFI's guest. 

  • Africa

  • Coronavirus

  • WHO

  • Health and medicine

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