There have been more Coronavirus cases reported in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated.
Speaking on Wednesday March 18, at the WHO daily press briefing on the Coronavirus pandemic, the DG advised Africa to wake up as the cases undetected may be more that the reported cases of the Coronavirus.
Tedros said;
“You know as of today (March 18), the number of cases reported from sub-Saharan Africa are 233 cases and four deaths, that is actually in terms of confirmed cases, it is the lowest region.
“But as Mike said, we cannot take this number as the amount of, or the number of cases we have in Africa, probably we have undetected cases or unreported cases. But in addition to that, even if we take this 233 cases as true, we have to prepare for the worst.
“In other countries we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point. So the best advice for Africa is to prepare for the worst and prepare today. It is actually better if these numbers are really true, to cut it from the bud.
“And that is why we are saying we have to do the testing, we have to do the contact tracing, we have to do the isolation and cut it from the bud.
“I think Africa should wake up, I think my continent should wake up.”
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