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WHO warns of continent-wide third wave of coronavirus infections in Africa
The Hill ^ | 06/03/21 10:48 PM EDT | BY LEXI LONAS

Posted on 06/03/2021 7:59:46 PM PDT by RandFan

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday warned of a continent-wide third wave of coronavirus cases in Africa as the continent's countries see major spikes in COVID-19 infections.

“In the last two weeks, Africa recorded a 20% increase in cases compared with the previous fortnight. The pandemic is trending upwards in 14 countries and in the past week alone, eight countries witnessed an abrupt rise of over 30% in cases,” the world health body said in a statement.

The WHO believes the spike in cases on the continent is due to the African winter approaching, an increase in travel and a premature relaxing of coronavirus restrictions.

Africa has had 3.7 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths but make up 2.9 percent of the globe's reported cases.

“The threat of a third wave in Africa is real and rising. Our priority is clear – it’s crucial that we swiftly get vaccines into the arms of Africans at high risk of falling seriously ill and dying of COVID-19,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, said in the body's statement.

The WHO said that vaccine distribution has also lagged in African countries — 31.4 million doses have been administered in 50 countries in Africa, where around 2 percent of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. By comparison, 24 percent have been vaccinated globally.

In addition, almost 20 countries in Africa have already gone through 66 percent of their vaccine doses.

“While many countries outside Africa have now vaccinated their high-priority groups and are able to even consider vaccinating their children, African countries are unable to even follow up with second doses for high-risk groups. I’m urging countries that have reached a significant vaccination coverage to release doses and keep the most vulnerable Africans out of critical care,” Moeti said.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he would be sending 25 million vaccine doses abroad, 5 million of which are going to Africa


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Africa is the prime target for "depopulation".
1 posted on 06/03/2021 7:59:46 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Who is traveling to Africa bringing it?


2 posted on 06/03/2021 8:01:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

the sky is falling again


3 posted on 06/03/2021 8:02:20 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: JerryBlackwell

yep, they have to keep the fear factor going.


4 posted on 06/03/2021 8:03:23 PM PDT by sageburn
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To: RandFan

NO MORE PANDEMIC LIES!!!!!

5 posted on 06/03/2021 8:04:26 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: RandFan

3,500,000 global CCP virus deaths out of a population of 7,900,000,000 = 0.05%, and the average age was 80.

The overwhelming number of the people who died were obese and old.

When are we going to stop letting the terrorists run our lives?


6 posted on 06/03/2021 8:05:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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To: RandFan

At what point will this communist agency loose its credibility? Take a guess.


7 posted on 06/03/2021 8:06:02 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: RandFan

I feel like we just came out of an African winter.


8 posted on 06/03/2021 8:06:24 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: RandFan

So WHO gives a F***?

Watch for flying pigs.


9 posted on 06/03/2021 8:07:57 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: RandFan

Perfect cover for the CCP to takeover what’s left. I heard that AFRICOM has become a big racket for the Woke Pentagon. The battle for Africa is just beginning.


10 posted on 06/03/2021 8:08:33 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: RandFan

The WHO, the NIH, and the CDC have lost all the respect I
ever had for them.

When they utter things these days, all I wonder is when they
are going to wake up to the fact we aren’t listening anymore.

If they are stupid enough to think we are, I rest my case.

These people are living in a bubble, clueless to what the
mindset of people outside that bubble is.


11 posted on 06/03/2021 8:10:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: RandFan

Because of the Sunday pill (hydroxychloroquine) coronavirus will primarily affect the vaccinated. This has been their depopulation plan from the beginning


12 posted on 06/03/2021 8:11:57 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: JerryBlackwell

It’s the traveling vaccination show. They want worldwide vaccinations, so we need to move then venue when necessary.

It’s VERY important to them.


13 posted on 06/03/2021 8:23:26 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: RandFan
I've read that Africans literally run away from UN & WHO medical teams in Africa because sickness and death that are sure to follow if they cooperate.

Notice in the pic that they aren't too friendly to the death squads roaming Pittsburg either.


14 posted on 06/03/2021 8:53:08 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: RandFan

Thanks for posting ...


15 posted on 06/03/2021 9:13:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: RandFan

Well it just a crisis... imagine when it combines with Ebola. Gonna be cray cray.


16 posted on 06/03/2021 9:16:50 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. )
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To: RandFan

Actually that is incorrect. It is only a testing ground. Sad but kinda true. It is an experimental place.


17 posted on 06/03/2021 9:20:20 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. )
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To: RandFan

Another sky is falling prediction designed to keep the fear narrative going and dropped down memory hole when it doesn’t happen.


18 posted on 06/03/2021 10:32:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RandFan

So the Wuhan lab is still releasing new virii strains....


19 posted on 06/03/2021 11:36:33 PM PDT by exnavy
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To: RandFan

HOW IS THIS MY FREAKIN PROBLEM? I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO SAY OVER ANY OF THE MANURE THAT HAPPENS IN AFRICA. I DON’T CARE! I have my own life and my own problems. I can guarantee you that not one soul in ALL of africa, the un or the united states federal government gives a crap about me or my problems. I feel EXACTLY the same about them. I don’t care about their crap! WHY SHOULD I?


20 posted on 06/03/2021 11:50:27 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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