World’s 2nd-largest continent Africa sees steep rise in coronavirus casesAfrica is poised to potentially become the next epicenter of the pandemic. “There is a critical shortage of treatment facilities for critical cases of COVID-19 in Africa,” Moeti said. An uphill battle for underfunded, understaffed health systemsWith more than 4,500 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,” Hartmann 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.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 27, 2020 15:11 UTC