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COVID Fatigue Risks Sparking Surge of Infections in Africa

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The World Health Organization warns COVID-19 fatigue in Africa
   has the potential to drive and produce subsequent new waves of this
   deadly infectious disease. WHO reports a cumulative total of 3.5
   million cases of coronavirus in Africa and 88,000 deaths.

   In the past week, the WHO reports more than 175,000 new COVID-19 cases
   across Africa and 6,200 deaths. The U.N. health agency says cases and
   deaths are surging because of the appearance of more contagious
   variants of COVID-19 on the continent.

   The WHO says the 501Y.V2 variant first identified in South Africa has
   now spread to Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, the French Indian Ocean
   region of Mayotte and in 24 non-African nations. It says a new strain
   detected in Britain also now has been found in Gambia and Nigeria

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