Deaths from COVID-19 increased by 40% in Africa in the past month compared to the previous month, the World Health Organization’s Africa chief, Matshidiso Moeti, told reporters last week. In the week ending on Sunday, the continent saw a 28% decrease in deaths, the Africa CDC said Thursday. South Africa, the hardest-hit country on the continent, saw over 125,000 excess deaths from natural causes between May 3 and Jan. 23. “We are definitely not counting all the deaths, especially in the second wave,” the Africa CDC’s Nkengasong told reporters last week. ___Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, contributed.

Source: Ethiopian News February 19, 2021 07:51 UTC