With the emergence of the emerging coronavirus in the African continent, the epidemic is particularly prevalent in political circles with the necessity of the President of Botswana and the Prime Minister of Ivory Coast quarantine and the transmission of infection to many ministers, leading to the death of the Vice-President of the National Assembly in Burkina Faso.
"This is said to be a disease of global elites," explained Ivory Coast political expert Jean Alabro. The most affected are those who travel or enter in contact with these people. Or at least in the beginning. Thus, in Africa this applies to politicians. ”
And warned the director of the World Health Organization for Africa, Machidesso Rebecca Mowiti, of the "dangerous development" of the Covid-19 epidemic in Africa, as it affected 40 countries, after the injuries were confined to one country a month ago, noting through the France 24 television network that it recorded "about 300 injuries". Per day »two or three days ago.
The number of people infected with HIV in Africa reached 3340, while 91 people died.
In Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Amadou Gunn Coulibaly, the ruling party's candidate for the October presidential election, announced on Twitter that he had placed himself in a home quarantine “after he had been in contact with someone who had been found to be infected with the virus.”
According to a source close to the authority, there are currently 10 "high-ranking personalities" in the home quarantine.
And the authorities have belittled their handling of the crisis, according to Jean Alabro, pointing out that the National Security Council on the virus collected only 43 characters.
Former President Henri Konan Bidet accused the authority of stalling the imposition of some measures so that a constitutional amendment could be voted on in Congress on March 16, "putting political calculations and narrow interests above the health of the Ivory Coast people."
And if some people praise the social media for the "courage" of the Prime Minister, others denounce the government's "incompetence", stressing that it has quarantined travelers from France, because they were close relatives of well-known personalities.
The epidemic is also spreading among politicians in Burkina Faso, where the cabinet convened the day before yesterday, via the video circle to avoid the transmission of infection to President Roche Marc Christian Kabore, a precautionary measure that imposed itself after the death of the second vice-president of the Assembly, Rose Marie Compaore, while the infection struck what At least seven ministers, especially Foreign Minister Alpha Barry.
In Nigeria, a source close to the presidency said that the political class in the federal capital Abuja "has been in a panic since the examination revealed that the director of the (president's) office was injured."
Several high-ranking Nigerian politicians, including many rulers and the Vice President himself, have announced that they have quarantined themselves after they were in contact with two injured people, one of whom is Assistant President Muhammad Bukhari, Aba Kiari.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the authorities have not confirmed that publicly confirmed HIV infections are public figures, but many media outlets reported that Economy Minister Acacia Boadobula was infected with the virus, after her brother, Assistant Director of the Office of Didier Pandopula, was among the first deaths.
In Tanzania, injuries were recorded in the opposition ranks with the family of the opposition leader, Freeman Mbowe, voluntary home stone, after his son fell ill.
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The number of people infected with HIV in Africa, while 91 people died.