Africa’s COVID-19 response is Commended, As the US struggles
Africa receives praise for responding better than some richer countries, including the United States. According to Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah "It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity." While the U.S. surpassed 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and the world approaches 1 million, Africa's surge has been leveling off. Its 1.4 million confirmed cases are far from the horrors predicted. Antibody testing is expected to show many more infections, but most cases are asymptomatic. Just over 34,000 deaths are confirmed on the continent of 1.3 billion people. Although, experts caution that data collection in many African countries is incomplete, "Africa is doing a lot of things right the rest of the world isn't," said Gayle Smith, a former administrator with the U.S. Agency for International Development. […]
