COVID was late to arrive in Africa, with initial infection and death rates lower than elsewhere in the world. Community transmission is however now accelerating in most countries, with lack of safe water as a major contributing factor. The pandemic also threatens to set back Africa’s development and attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with extreme poverty on the rise, according to new international research to which Kelly Alexander of Tilburg University contributed.
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Source: Phys.org