When the pandemic began, global public health officials raised grave concerns about the vulnerabilities of Africa. Some were riven by armed conflict, limiting health workers’ access. Some deployed networks of community health workers. With stricter control measures lifted and many people no longer seeing the virus as a threat, public health officials fear that Africa’s second wave could be far worse than its first. A woman complaining of a cough and difficulty breathing rejected the advice of health workers to go to the hospital one day this month.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2020 09:33 UTC