Hospital admission rates are dropping

Scientists study the causes of low corona deaths in Africa

Volunteers wait to participate in the Corona vaccine trials in South Africa.

Reuters

Public health systems, burdened with exceeding their capabilities in Africa, lack of testing capabilities, and a large population overcrowding in slums, prompted experts to predict a catastrophe in the past when the new Corona virus arrived on the African continent last February, but at the time when the world recorded the first to Yesterday, the millionth number of deaths among people with "Covid-19" disease caused by infection with the virus, Africa is achieving better results than expected, and even less death than other continents, prompting scientists to study this phenomenon and find out its causes.

The death rate in the continent is 2.4%, with a total of approximately 35,000 among more than 1.4 million injured, according to Reuters data, while in North America the rate is 2.9%, and in Europe 4.5%.

Hospitals in many African countries say hospitalization rates are dropping.

“Based on what we have seen so far, it is unlikely that we will see something similar to the extent that we are seeing in Europe, whether from Europe,” said one of the experts, a professor at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in London, Rashida Ferrand, who works with the Parernyattoa Group of Hospitals in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Where rates of injury or death ».

According to "Reuters", scientists and public health experts suggest a number of potential factors for the reduction in deaths in Africa, including the young age of a large segment of the continent's population, and the possibility that the tuberculosis vaccine, with which children are immunized in many African countries, may be a catalyst in reducing deaths from " Covid-19 ».

2.4%

The death rate from the virus in Africa, compared to 4.5% in Europe.

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