In In Africa, the number of corona cases is starting to drop noticeably, although only 5.5 percent of the population are fully vaccinated. In a weekly comparison, new infections fell by 26 percent to 31,000 cases, according to John Nkengasong of the African Union Health Organization (Africa CDC). On Thursday he spoke of a good signal and said: “We have made a lot of progress as a continent.” Europe’s neighboring continent is the front runner in vaccination Morocco, which is currently giving injections to 57 percent of its population Has.
“The (infection) numbers are falling slightly but steadily,” emphasized Nkengasong, who at the same time warned of a possible setback. Even if Africa is far from where it wants to be in the fight against the pandemic, the direction is correct. A total of 188 million vaccines have been administered so far. Vaccination skepticism is hardly widespread on the continenthe said when asked.
According to the CDC, a total of almost 8.5 million infections have been documented in Africa so far, of which more than 218,800 were fatal. According to experts, the number of unreported cases is likely to be much higher on the continent with its 1.3 billion people. The World Health Organization (WHO) had recently stated that almost 86 percent of all corona infections in Africa go unnoticed and the number of all infections on the continent is estimated at 59 million. The CDC is trying to pool the resources of the African states and to coordinate measures in the fight against the pandemic.