On A DAY LIKE TODAY

But continent will have fewer deaths than Europe and US because of its younger population and other lifestyle factors Karen McVeigh |Fri 15 May 2020 | The Guardian Nearly a quarter of a billion people across 47 African countries will catch coronavirus over the next year, but the result will be fewer severe cases and deaths than in the US and Europe, new research … [Read more...] about Africa facing a quarter of a billion coronavirus cases, WHO predicts

Carley Petesch |May 11, 2020 | Christian Science Monitor A loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as Senegalese researchers work to develop a prototype ventilator that could cost a mere $160 each instead of tens of thousands of dollars. The team is using 3-D printed parts as it works to find a homegrown solution to a medical shortfall … [Read more...] about African nations find solutions to shortages in virus crisis

Jina Moore | May 15, 2020 | The New Yorker n early March, Ingrid Gercama left her home in the Netherlands and flew to war-torn South Sudan. An applied-research anthropologist with a special interest in epidemics, she had spent time on the African continent during a public-health emergency before, remaining in Liberia, in 2014, during that country’s Ebola outbreak. When she … [Read more...] about What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus

Samuel Gebre | April 11, 2020 | Bloomberg.com Ethiopia prohibited companies from laying off workers and terminating employment in measures introduced as part of a state of emergency to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The rules announced Saturday also ban meetings of more than four people for religious, government and other organizations, including political … [Read more...] about Ethiopia Prohibits Company Layoffs Under State of Emergency