Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials have said.
“During the last four days, we can see that the numbers have already doubled,” Michel Yao, the WHO Africa programme manager for emergency response, told a media teleconference yesterday.
“If the trend continues, and also learning from what happened in China and in Europe, some countries may face a huge peak very soon,” he said, adding that it could arrive in the coming weeks, but without naming countries.
