'Anywhere between 300,000 and 3.3 million African people could lose their lives as a direct result of COVID-19, depending on the intervention measures taken to stop the spread,' the UNECA says in a new report.
A man carries a box of protective masks to emergency workers Thursday in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The West African country has seen relatively few confirmed cases of the coronavirus to this point — but global health officials fear that won't always be the case.A man carries a box of protective masks to emergency workers Thursday in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
To calculate the impact of the virus, the commission referred to a computer model composed by researchers at Imperial College London, whose grim outlooks on the possible effects in other parts of the world have already proven. In a worst-case scenario, in which governments do not intervene with preventative measures such as large-scale social distancing, Africa may see more than 22 million people require hospitalization and some 3.3 million die of COVID-19.
Vera Songwe, the UNECA executive secretary, says $100 billion is needed to"urgently and immediately provide fiscal space to all countries to help address the immediate safety net needs of the populations." Already, Songwe said inthat countries in Africa have been suffering under the virus' fiscal effects, even if the physical ones have not yet made their full impact felt.
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