COVID-19 Has Not Spared Africa: Study Finds Massive Under-Reporting in Zambia © AP Photo / Emmanuel Mwiche
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The study s authors were frank in their assessment of the “Africa paradox” of apparent low COVID-19 rates in the densely-populated and poverty-afflicted continent simply putting it down to a failure to test patients even when they showed symptoms of the disease.
Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has largely spared Africa may simply be down to gross under-reporting, according to a recent medical study.
The paper, published in the latest edition of the
British Medical Journal, found that in almost 20 percent of deaths recorded at one hospital in the Zambian capital Lusaka, the individual tested positive for the deadly virus post-mortem.
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