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.
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Coronavirus
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