“It was very odd because I couldn’t even touch her, I couldn’t comfort her,” Oosthuizen told ABC News. An uphill battle for underfunded, understaffed health systemsWith more than 4,200 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, South Africa is one of the worst-affected nations on the continent. “Our criteria has loosened so we’re testing a lot of people,” she told ABC News in a recent telephone interview. “We have quite a big delay from doing the test to getting the results,” she told ABC News. The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak since 2018.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 25, 2020 15:22 UTC