Europe has 4,000 ICU beds for every million people. Parts of Africa have 5, health officials say.

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The total number of beds in ICUs available during the spread of coronavirus in 43 countries in Africa is less than 5,000 — about 5 beds per one million people, compared to 4,000 beds per one million people in Europe, the World Health Organization says

From CNN’s Paula Newton in Ottawa

Canadian public health officials for the first time released national projections on the spread of Covid-19 and warned that social distancing measures were unlikely to end soon. “These stark numbers tell us that we must do everything that we can now to remain in that best-case scenario,” said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was blunt as he discussed the projections, saying there would be no"return to normal" until a widely available vaccine is found.

 

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So sad

Could it be that COVID-19 has exposed the underbelly of the pretentious superiority of Western healthcare systems? History will tell

Do some fact checking. The 4000 number per million is closer to the nr of hospital beds, way too high for icu beds.

youb are rubbish. We are not Americans, we don't tolerate fake news.

In Africa ICU cases are rare, in other parts of world just flu stretches entire medical system and, African depends on general medicine not specialised one and mainly depend on local medication therefore ICU beds can used to define our healthy system.

That's because African leaders are the most corrupt and stupid

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