Category: covid-19 in africa

Africa Is Starkly Unvaccinated, and Starkly Unvanquished by COVID.

Africa as a Whole Is Very Strikingly Unvaccinated, According to Johns Hopkins University, Our World in Data. ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations Let’s keep in mind that most striking continent on an otherwise bleak world map, [1] as we examine the following map, which shows Africa’s burden of COVID cases since the beginning of COVID. [2] Here is Africa’s relative share of…


Disruptions From COVID-19 Response Led to 63,000 More Malaria Deaths

Deaths due to malaria jumped after the pandemic, with four nations from Africa accounting for much of the deaths last year, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Between 2000 and 2019, global malaria deaths declined from 897,000 to 568,000, states the World Malaria Report 2022 published Dec. 8. In 2020, malaria…