Iraq and South Africa situations

Iraq
Cases, 48,109
Deaths, 1,943
Population, 38.4 m

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/iraq-infections-doctors-warn-surge-cases-imminent-200624130934728.html

Unprecedented rise in infections

Doctors warn the healthcare system is close to collapse

Ten days after easing curfew in Iraq, infections rising rapidly, more than 1,800 new cases recorded a day

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/29/c_139175972.htm

Last Sunday, (28th June) Cases + 1,749

Tests, + 11,172 = 532,120

World Health Organization, launched a major awareness campaign

New lockdowns in Basra province and Maysan

Hospital runs out of oxygen, 4 deaths

https://observers.france24.com/en/20200630-iraq-nassiriya-covid-19-hospital-patients-
oxygen?fbclid=IwAR2He3Um5laFucktdsUqhSDp9XIOjoPcXjU9tAAbrsIkq7xM5Cxe_hESpi0

Al-Hussein University Hospital in Nassiriya ran out of oxygen on June 24

"We can’t watch our loved ones die because of mercenaries and those who make a business out of poor people’s lives,”

Hope you are well; as you have mentioned in many of your videos, there should be great concern about poorer countries and their crippled healthcare system in the handling of this pandemic.

Please see attached two videos captured at a hospital in southern Iraq highlighting our concerns. Massive queues and fights for oxygen for ill family members - just general chaos at hospitals.

Currently there is a critical situation in some hospitals in southern Iraq - all lacking basic equipment and even PPE for that matter. The country has only been seeing around 2,000 cases per day for the last week, and the system is already overloaded with doctors going on strike. This is inevitable considering there hasn't been significant investment in Iraq’s healthcare system since 1980.

It’s clear that many people will needlessly die here in the coming months.

Please feel free to share this information with the world.

South Africa
Population, 58m
Cases, 151,209
Deaths, 2,657

https://sacoronavirus.co.za
https://sacoronavirus.co.za/information-about-the-virus-2/

Province Total cases to 29 June 2020
Eastern Cape 26,195
Free State 1,377
Gauteng 39,841
KwaZulu-Natal 9,041
Limpopo 1,011
Mpumalanga 1,089
North West 3,931
Northern Cape 404
Western Cape 61,375
Unknown 0
Total 144,264

23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa

Three-week nationwide lockdown

Severe restrictions on travel and movement

More needed to be done to avoid “an enormous catastrophe” among the population.

Sale of alcohol.

Borders were closed

Quarantine enforced on inbound travellers and returning citizens.

1 April, Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize

Launched 60 new mobile testing laboratorie

10,000 community health care workers, door-to-door household screening

Refer symptomatic people to clinics for testing.

Capacity to conduct 5,000 tests daily, now increasing to 30,000

https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/eastern-cape-healthcare-has-collapsed-sick-people-are-fighting-each-other-20200628

Patients are lying in the corridors of hospitals like Livingstone in Port Elizabeth and are dying, (City Press)

Many of them need oxygen, but there is not enough for everyone
(Eastern Cape Doctor)

Fights to try and steal oxygen from other patients

‘Survival of the fittest’ situation

Families not allowed to enter the hospital

Severe staff shortages

49 patients in Port Elizabeth required admission to intensive care units, 35 beds available.

https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/coronavirus

Видео Iraq and South Africa situations канала Dr. John Campbell