The World Health Organization has warned that as many as 190,000 Africans could die from the coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic
, and countless more from other diseases as the continent’s limited medical resources are stretched even further.
The warnings about resuming public gatherings are being made worldwide – but the stakes are particularly high in West Africa, where countries with fewer hospitals and ventilators have been prioritizing disease prevention as a public health strategy. As elsewhere, though, decisions here are starting to reflect an acknowledgment that the coronavirus crisis might last longer than some restrictions can be tolerated.
Those early successes have been attributed to the limits on public gatherings and on regional transport, as mosques, churches and schools were swiftly shut down. Critics fear Senegal now risks an explosion of new cases if people pray in large numbers and hold gatherings to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of Ramadan.“We have passed the 2,000 case mark,” lamented 39-year-old teacher Daba Senghor. “The opening of the mosques will help the spread of the virus.
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