UN agency expects at least 300,000 deaths in Africa from coronavirus pandemic
A health worker checks a man's temperature during door-to-door screening in an attempt to contain the coronavirus disease outbreak in Jika Joe informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, April 16, 2020
"To protect and build towards our shared prosperity at least $100 billion is needed to immediately resource a health and social safety net response," the UNECA report stated. In the total absence of such interventions, the study calculated over 1.2 billion Africans would be infected and 3.3 million would die this year. Africa has a total population of around 1.3 billion.
Combating the disease will be complicated by the fact that 36 percent of Africans have no access to household washing facilities, and the continent counts just 1.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people. France, in comparison, has 5.98 beds per 1,000 people. "In a best-case scenario ... $44 billion would be required for testing, personal protective equipment, and to treat all those requiring hospitalisation," it stated.
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