MedicalBrief 291 - 27 Feb 2020
"Despite only two diagnosed African cases of coronavirus so far, a Lancet study says South Africa, along with Algeria and Egypt, are at greatest risk on the continent, while a Bloomberg report warns that sub-Saharan Africa may be the region hardest hit economically and socially outside Asia.
With COVID-19 now reaching dozens of countries, and with Austria, Croatia, Switzerland and Brazil declaring cases, a World Health Organisation expert has warned that countries outside China are “simply not ready” for a pandemic and need to learn urgently from how China.
The Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota has given its latest perspective on COVID-19.
Three more European countries have reported their first COVID-19 cases, mostly linked to Italy‘s outbreak, and more newly affected Middle East countries confirmed more illnesses linked to an outbreak in Iran.
In other developments regarding the novel coronavirus, the leader of the World Health Organisation (WHO) joint mission to China gave a detailed report on the group’s findings in China, and case numbers grew in other affected Asian countries, mainly in South Korea and Japan."
Read more:
