Health officials raise concerns for African nations which face an 'existential threat' from the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic
Workers from the state-owned Zimbabwe United Passenger Company fill up knapsack sprayers with disinfectant liquid as they prepare to spray a commuter bus rank in Harare on April 1, 2020, during the third day of a government-imposed lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19.
Nkengasong said authorities are "aggressively" looking into procuring equipment such as ventilators that most African countries desperately need, and local manufacturing and repurposing are being explored. “Countries like Cameroon just reached out yesterday, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, asking, ‘Look, we need tents because we’re running out of hospital beds already,’” Nkengasong said.
As more African countries impose lockdowns, both the WHO and Africa CDC expressed concern for the millions of low-income people who need to go out daily to earn their living. That’s a “huge challenge,” Moeti said, noting that hundreds of thousands of children are now out of school as well. The first sub-Saharan African nation to impose a lockdown, Rwanda, has now extended it by two weeks, a sign of what might be to come for other nations. Botswana imposed its own, effective Friday.
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