{"id":4673,"date":"2022-06-09T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:40:35","slug":"covid-19-94-drop-in-deaths-expected-in-2022-a-great-success-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/covid-19-94-drop-in-deaths-expected-in-2022-a-great-success-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: 94% drop in deaths expected in 2022, a great success for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>The low number of deaths expected this year is a great achievement for Africa, which is already a victim of the emergence of new variants, according to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa Director. However, the main problems remain unchanged on the continent: lack of sequencing capacity to trace variants and certainly lack of vaccines in sufficient numbers, even if on this second point the situation is improving significantly.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>In Africa, deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic are expected to decrease by almost 94% in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The low number of deaths expected this year is a great achievement for the Continent, which is already a victim of the emergence of new variants, according to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa Director.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, covid-19 was the seventh leading cause of death in Africa &#8211; on average, 970 people would die per day &#8211; second only to malaria. The significant increase in the number of deaths in 2021 was due to the Delta variant, which is more infectious and causes a more severe form of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Jeune Afrique media, although after the wave of contamination caused by the Omicron variant, the contamination figures fell to a fairly low level, the main problems remain unchanged on the continent: lack of sequencing capacity to trace the variants and of course lack of vaccines in sufficient numbers, even if on this second point the situation is improving significantly.<\/p>\n<p>As new variants may still emerge, African countries must not stop supporting the most vulnerable with COVID-19 vaccines and effective treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low number of deaths expected this year is a great achievement for Africa, which is already a victim of the emergence of new variants, according to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa Director. However, the main problems remain unchanged on the continent: lack of sequencing capacity to trace variants and certainly lack of vaccines in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}