Many African countries reacted quickly to the pandemic, but they have not avoided economic harm
“This virus is a deadly enemy we are dealing with and we cannot look at the numbers and be complacent,” said Nkengasong. “It’s going to change dramatically in the next week.”
Travel restrictions applied early may help to reduce the number of cases on the continent, but they have not prevented economic havoc. The U.N.’s Economic Commission for Africa last week cut this year’s GDP growth estimate for the continent from 3.2 percent to 1.8 percent and spoke of multibillion-dollar loses for countries such as Nigeria, which are dependent on healthy global oil prices.
Gianfranco Rotigliano, who coordinated the UNICEF response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, said that a growing coronavirus epidemic would be difficult to hide.
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