Africa remains in the throes of a third wave of coronavirus infections, despite a recent decline in new cases, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control & Prevention.
New infections and deaths fell 14% in the four weeks through Sept. 12, John Nkengasong, the center's director said in an online briefing on Thursday. He estimates that 70% of the population may need to be inoculated to curb the spread of the disease.
It's unlikely that Africa has had “a significantly higher number of deaths than has been reported,” Nkengasong said. “What we know for sure is that we have an excess number of infections. There are people that have been infected and we didn't count them.”
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