Africa has seen more than 17,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease and about 900 deaths so far - relatively little compared to some other regions.
NAIROBI - Coronavirus cases in Africa could shoot up from thousands now to 10 million within three to six months according to very provisional modelling, a regional World Health Organization official said on Thursday.
"This is still to be fine-tuned," he told a media teleconference."It's difficult to make a long-term estimation because the context changes too much and also public health measures when they are fully implemented, they can actually have an impact." "The impact, potentially, of this decision will be quite significant on areas such as polio eradication," said Moeti, just when Africa was close to being declared polio-free.
More than 2 million people have been infected globally, with the largest number in the United States.
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