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No one is born hating someone else because of their skin color, social background or religion. People hate because they have learned to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can also learn to love, because love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela
The numbers of COVID in Africa
(link to the WHO website - data source)
The curves show a constant slowdown in the countries reported.
Estimates of the total population are weak . The extreme example is Nigeria. We do not know the population size of the most populous country on the continent; for most countries we do not have estimates of the ratio of births to recorded deaths as a proportion of the probable total.
Do not forget the diagnostic difficulties in African countries, as mentioned here
Tanzania reports the data to the WHO on an erratic basis.
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