Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80% in one month, WHO says!

Coronavirus casualties in Africa rose promptly over the preceding month, as casualties rose by 80 per cent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has announced. WHO’s Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, revealed on Monday that Africa was observing a phenomenal surge in coronavirus casualties.

“COVID-19 demise rates have boosted across Africa, with the elevated weekly rate (6,343) to date recorded during the weekend beginning 19 July 2021,” announced Atuhebwe. “Demises heightened by 89%, from 13,242 to 24,987, in the previous 28 days, when interpreted statistics for the prior 28 days,” she put in.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus informed a news meeting Friday that the epidemic’s exacerbating casualty toll and abrupt disease rate are “being driven by the highly communicable Delta variant,” which is deemed to be more fatal than the existing strain of coronavirus.

Ghebreyesus announced the Delta variant — so far “observed in at least 132 nations” — has also run through Covid-19 diseases globally by 80 per cent within the preceding four weekends. “Almost 4 million cases were noted to WHO last weekend, and on recent movements, we anticipate the cumulative amount of cases to uphold 200 million within the next two weeks,” Ghebreyesus calculated.

Atuhebwe clarified that a maximum number of recent deaths in the previous 28 days were recorded from Southern Africa, which she announced records for 64 per cent of the burgeoning casualty rate with 16,019, while North Africa accounts for 24 per cent with 6036 casualties. Both subregions accounted for 88 per cent of all noted losses in the preceding month, the WHO officer put in.

Atuhebwe illustrated that at least 15 African countries are momentarily reporting an upward tendency in weekly casualties related to Covid-19. “The 15 nations are Algeria, Botswana, DRC, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco,” she told, associating the rise in Covid casualty rates to improved communication rates of the virus.