African Can Only Contract Coronavirus But Cannot Die From It ?
There’s a rumour that black people can’t die from coronavirus! We did a little research to see if this was true or false.
Word spread quickly because a report said that a man who had the Coronovirus stayed alive because of his African America skin!
“Doctors said he remained alive because he has black skin, the antibodies of a black man are 3 times stronger, powerful and resistant compared to that of white.”
However, there’s no evidence that it’s true. As a matter of fact, none of the articles ever mentioned that African blood, or black skin, made people immune to the disease.
IT WAS A FAKE ARTICLE SHARED ONLINE!
However, health experts are puzzled by only 3 cases of Coronavirus in Africa with no deaths. To date, only three cases of infection have been officially recorded in Africa, one in Egypt, one in Algeria and one in Nigeria, with no deaths.
Whether it’s a matter of faulty detection, climatic factors or simple fluke, the remarkably low rate of coronavirus infection in African countries, with their fragile health systems, continues to puzzle and worry experts.
Shortly after the virus appeared, specialists warned of the risks of its spreading in Africa, because of the continent’s close commercial links with Beijing and the fragility of its medical services.
“Our biggest concern continues to be the potential for Covid-19 to spread in countries with weaker health systems,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, told African Union health ministers gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on February 22.
In a study published in The Lancet medical journal on the preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against the importation of Covid-19, an international team of scientists identified Algeria, Egypt and South Africa as the most likely to import new coronavirus cases into Africa, though they also have the best-prepared health systems in the continent and are the least vulnerable.
‘Nobody knows’
As to why the epidemic is not more widespread in the continent, “nobody knows”, said Professor Thumbi Ndung’u, from the African Institute for Health Research in Durban, South Africa.
“Perhaps there is simply not that much travel between Africa and China.”
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