JOHANNESBURG (AP) – The global hot spot South Africa sees a “big gap” between the deaths shown by COVID-19 and an unusually high number of the most sensitive deaths from herb-based causes, while Africa’s most sensitive fitness officer said Thursday that the coronavirus is spreading there “like a wildfire.” »
A new report by the South African Medical Research Council, released Wednesday night, shows more than 17,000 excess deaths from 6 May to 14 July to data over two years, while deaths shown through COVID-19 exceeded 6,000.
“The numbers showed a steady build-up: until the week of July, there were 59% more deaths from herbal reasons than expected,” the report says.
Council president Glenda Gray said more deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 and other non-unusual diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis, while many fitness resources are being redirected to the pandemic.
Meanwhile, some South Africans have the idea of avoiding fitness services because fears of the new virus and public hospitals are overwhelmed.
“The typhoon of the coronavirus has actually arrived,” President Cyril Ramaphosa told the country Thursday night when cases exceeded 400,000. He announced that schools would “take a month’s break” for students.
South Africa now has the fifth number of cases in the world. It represents more than some of the cases shown on the African continent with 408,052.
One of the country’s nurses buried on Thursday, the last of more than 5,000 inflamed fitness staff in South Africa.
Duduzile Margaret Mbonane died just a month before her retirement, her husband said. She’s 59. Colleagues dressed in white stood at their memorial and recited the nurses’ commitment to service.
Some were afraid. “As I speak now, most of our colleagues are so infected,” Nurse Lindiwe Yeni said. “We take care of other people without knowing it. We only locate it after two or 3 days. You need a quick check of the virus.
“The government will have to help our nurses in protective clothing,” Duduzile’s husband Herbert Mbonane said. “Perhaps my wife would not have died if non-public protective devices had been manufactured in time.”
Frontlineers have been greatly affected: the World Health Organization said Thursday that more than 10,000 fitness staff have become inflamed in its African region, which is largely sub-Saharan Africa.
WHO Director Matshidiso Moeti said she could not say how many fitness workers, most of whom were nurses, died. He said 41 million pieces of non-public protective devices are expected to begin shipping from China this weekend.
African countries now have a total of 768,978 cases.
South Africa is “very concerned,” said John Nkengasong, director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And now, other African countries are a developing problem, Kenya, where Nkengasong said the cases “took off very, very quickly.” The East African grocery shopping center now has more than 15,000 cases shown.
Local transmission of the virus has begun in many countries on the continent, and once it is sown in communities such as slums, “it spreads like a wildfire, what we are seeing lately in South Africa,” Nkengasong said.
The actual number of cases in Africa is unknown, as shown in south Africa’s new report, the continent’s most evolved country.
Tests remain limited due to a shortage of sources, with only 7.2 million tests conducted on the continent by another 1.3 billion people. Data collection is incomplete because other people die at home or before the test. Few African countries received supplies to largely trace deaths even before the pandemic.
“Community deaths, we just don’t know how countries capture this,” Nkengasong said.
The case rate in Africa remains low, just over 2%, but this measure is weakened if the government does not know the actual figures.
As cases escalation, CDC Africa’s director said that “universal masking of the continent is very vital at this critical stage,” while some South African officials already warn of pandemic fatigue.
Many African countries temporarily locked the hell up as the pandemic spread across Europe and the United States, delaying its spread at home. But economic pressures have forced top governments to ease restrictions, South Africa again banned the sale of alcohol this month to help lose valuable hospital beds.
“The continent as a total has yet to retaliate effectively,” Nkengasong said, noting that 37 countries have reported fewer than 5,000 cases.
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Themba Hadebe contributed to this report.
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