Question

what are the challenges of COVID-19 in South Africa
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Answer 1

Answer:PLS MARK BRAINLIEST

1. Explanation:At the beginning of March 2020, South Africa (59 million inhabitants) was hit by the pandemic of COVID-19 and soon became the most affected country in Africa by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
2. From one single case on March 5th, the number of cases increased rapidly, forcing the South-African Government to swiftly react and place the country under strict lockdown for six weeks
3. . The strategy of the South African Government bore fruits with a contained spread of the virus.
4. If the number of positive cases at the end of the lockdown reached 5647, the number of fatal casualties was limited to 103 deaths.
5. The lockdown was overall well respected, even if serious problems of food supply soon occurred in informal settlements, leading to riots and confrontation with security forces.
6. Indeed, populations were obedient, but not being able to practice sport or outdoors activities appeared heavy.
7. The constant fear of the poorest not to have enough money to pay rent and buy food (even if the Government organised food parcels’ distributions), and to find less and less work was echoed by the fear of losing jobs among those more privileged.
8. Despite the risk of an economic crisis, the South African Government has continued on the reasonable path of containing the pandemic with ending the lockdown at a slow pace, in five phases.

Answer 2

Answer:

As of the beginning of May, Africa had recorded over 52,000 COVID-19 cases with more than 2,000 deaths. Although this appears to be small relative to the global burden, the sad truth is that it is the tip of the iceberg. This is because of the low testing capacity of most African countries. According to the Africa Center for Disease Control, testing capacity ranges from 10 tests per 100,000 people in Ethiopia to 280 per 100,000 in South Africa. These pale in comparison to the rate of testing in Western countries such as the United States, New Zealand and even Lithuania.

With nationalism rising in the face of COVID-19, Africa is being relegated to the sidelines in acquiring much-needed diagnostics, as countries with the technology have restricted exports and preferentially sell to wealthier buyers. This is a recurrent malady. During the AIDS pandemic, lifesaving diagnostics and drugs got to many African countries only long after they were available in Europe and North America

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