PARIS, April 24 — Diverting the scarce healthcare resources of developing countries to the rapidly expanding Covid-19 pandemic could see a 45 per cent jump in child and maternal mortality before the end of the year, an international health consortium warned yesterday. Unless poorer nations in...
Friday, 24 Apr 2020 08:31 AM MYT
Unless poorer nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America get a rapid infusion of drugs, medical oxygen, protective equipment and on-the-ground assistance, the global South is likely to see 1.
In Africa, the week leading to April 21 saw a 43 per cent jump in Covid-19 cases and a 38 per cent increase in the number of Covid-19-related deaths, the World Health Organisation reported Wednesday.Across 45 countries, the continent registered 15,394 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 716 deaths, for a case/fatality ratio of nearly 5 per cent.
One key objective must be to “safeguard life-saving routine immunisation programmes” — against measles, mumps, typhoid, diphtheria and a dozen other preventable diseases — “during the Covid-19 response and recovery,” noted Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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