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Soon there will be. And it is quite possible that during the summer 2020 the limit of 100,000 cases could also be reached in some countries. One of the major challenges is in testing. If there were enough good quality test sets and reagents (and not just quick tests), many more test locations and more capable personnel (how, when and where samples are taken vs. development of COVID-19; and analysed), it is very likely that we would already have such countries in Africa. Unfortunately, even when Africa CDC, WHO and others have worked hard since February to increase testing capabilities in Africa, the small number of tests (per million) practically every country in Africa limits our real picture of COVID-19 in Africa. see e.g.
COVID-19 testing statistics by country (sort per Tested per million people). And the poor situation has not been/is not just in April-May, but could also stay during the summer months of 2020 even if the very optimistic plan of +10 million test sets produced in next four months is successful. See e.g.
view of Dr. John Nkengasong in Nature (2020-4-28), where the writer expresses his views diplomatically, due to his position as the boss of Africa CDC. --
Paju~enwiki (
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15:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Hey!
What sources do you use on that Total confirmed cases graph? This graph say that on 28 April there was ~45,000 thousands cases, but
Coronavirus in Africa tracker say that on 5 May there is 46,968 cases,
worldometers say that there is 48,081 cases and the
latest report from WHO (4 May) say that there is "only" 30 536 cases. So how it is possible that on 28 April we have ~45,000? when few days later (5 May) is ~46.000?Natanieluz (
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09:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Inaccurate graphs
I've removed the active cases graph, as this is inaccurate and unmaintained. I asked the person who created it to fix a few things at
User_talk:Yash400#Active_cases_in_Africa but it hasn't been corrected yet. There are figures missing, and the totals don't match the source. I've also asked an anonymous IP adding data to the total confirmed graph to source this, as there is also missing data, so everything is out, and can't be recreated without confirming a source.
Greenman (
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22:47, 21 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Infobox and the First outbreak
I think that the section First outbreak should have info about the first outbreak in Africa, and not China. This infobox is headlined "COVID-19 pandemic in Africa", not the world.--
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22:04, 22 November 2020 (UTC)reply
An editor has started an
RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the
COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Interested editors are invited to contribute.
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