Africa, rapid increases

Global, in Africa cases have risen for the past 7 weeks

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?

Africa

https://www.afro.who.int/news/africas-covid-19-surge-tops-second-wave-peak-vaccine-deliveries-pick

Cases have risen for seven weeks

Onset of the third wave on 3 May 2021

W/E 4th July, worst pandemic week ever

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?

Cases, + 251 000 (7 days)

Up 20% on previous week

Now, Cases, + 276,884 (past 7 days)

Sixteen African countries, in resurgence

Delta variant in 10 of these

First delta detected in Nigeria

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa

Africa has just marked the continent’s most dire pandemic week ever.

But the worst is yet to come as the fast-moving third wave continues to gain speed and new ground

The end to this precipitous rise is still weeks away.

Cases are doubling now every 18 days, compared with every 21 days only a week ago.

We can still break the chain of transmission by testing, isolating contacts and cases and following key public health measures

COVAX

May and June, very poor

Past two weeks, 1.6 million doses to Africa through COVAX

20 million Johnson & Johnson/Janssen and Pfizer from US soon

In coordination with the African Union to 49 countries

Norway and Sweden sending soon

UNICEF

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef%E2%80%AFsigns-first-covid-19-vaccine%E2%80%AFagreement-supply-african-union

Agreement to supply the African Union, 220 million doses Johnson & Johnson vaccine by the end of 2022.

2021, first 35 million to arrive

SA production

So far

66 million doses delivered to Africa

40 million through bilateral deals

25 million COVAX-supplied

800 000 doses via African Union African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team

50 million doses administered to date, (1.6% of global doses)

16 million fully vaccinated, (2% of population)

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

https://www.dw.com/en/africa-covid-vaccine-revolution/a-58136447

1% fully vaccinated

2.5% have received at least one dose

African vaccine production

Produced about 1% of its vaccines so far

Tunisia, Algeria, South Africa and Senegal

Malaria

Preventable and curable

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria

Worldwide cases, 229 million

Deaths, 409 000

Children aged under 5 years are the most vulnerable group

Accounted for 67% (274 000) of all malaria deaths worldwide.

African children’s deaths, 257, 560

WHO African Region, 94% of malaria cases and deaths

Tuberculosis in Africa

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/tuberculosis-tb

Cases, 2.5 million

Deaths, 417,000

(1.7 million globally)

Diarrheal diseases in Africa

http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/variation-childhood-diarrheal-morbidity-and-mortality-africa-2000–2015

Severe cases, 30 million

Deaths, 330,000 (mostly in under 5s)

Dengue fever

Global infections, 390 million per year

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