It is not only Covid!
When asked what the Covid situation is like
in Central Africa, I often say that we unfortunately have an advantage:
between the wars, misery and various other problems, the virus, for
now, has done little damage in comparison to what else we are dealing
with.
The latest official bulletin, which dates to April 20,
2021, declared a total of 6,194 positive cases. Since March 2020, in
just over a year, there have been 85 deaths.
It is true that in
recent weeks there has been a sharp increase. In the first 20 days of
April, there were 909 new cases: which means that in a month there was
an increase of 15%.
The situation is getting serious, but there are many other diseases that are causing much more damage here in Central Africa.
Around the same time as Covid, a measles epidemic broke out, killing 83 children!
Malaria
remains the number one enemy here: the WHO declared, for 2017 alone,
1,300,000 confirmed cases, and 3,689 deaths, of which 670 were children
under the age of 5.
Tuberculosis, according to the Pasteur
Institute in Bangui, affects 423 of every 100,000 people her (resulting
in almost 20,000 cases a year).
And, to complete the picture, in
2018 UNICEF estimated that 110,000 children were suffering from acute
malnutrition, which included 45,000 in severe form.
Perhaps,
since the health situation is so dire, it would be more important and
urgent to care for the hundreds, thousands of children who die here
every year first. Statistics show that 81 out of 1000 children die
before their first birthday! Perhaps, before worrying about Covid (or at
least at the same time), it would be better to take the care of
mothers, children, schools, the health system in general, and basic
vaccinations more seriously ...
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