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WHO offers to provide technical support to SA as Covid infections rise

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The World Health Organisation in Africa’s growing concern for SA’s rapidly increasing infection rate of Covid-19 has forced it to offer to provide technical support to help curb the spread of the respiratory disease.

Less than 10 countries on the continent have been able to meet the necessary testing of 100 tests per 10,000 population.

“We are seeing some countries where the number of cases is increasing quite rapidly after a sort of slow pace in the beginning. “We have countries like Madagascar that, after a period of calm, have now seen an exponential number of cases leading to locking down again the capital cities.”

 

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