致命的covid-19三角洲变体在非洲占用

[坎帕拉]在55个非洲州中有22个报告了高度感染性的COVID-19三角洲变种，在接下来的几个月中可能造成数十万人死亡。report非洲战略研究中心。

该报告上周（7月9日）发布的报告说，自4月底以来，当时达美航空在乌干达出现以来，在非洲大陆的Covid-19案件数量几乎增加了两倍。

“The speed and scale of Africa’s third wave is like nothing we’ve seen before.”

Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Office for Africa

“Panic and fear are taking hold in many communities as the number of people losing family [members] and friends rises exponentially,” the report says.

Africa’s more than 103,184COVID-19如果10月，死亡可能会击中500,000疫苗are not made available to contain the raging variants, a meeting also heard.

New COVID-19 cases progressively increased in Africa for six weeks running and rose by 25 per cent weekly to almost 202,000 by last month (27 June), according to the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for Africa.

Deaths increased by 15 per cent across 38 African countries to almost 3,000 in the same period. The surge comes as less than three per cent of people have received even a single vaccine dose.

“The speed and scale of Africa’s third wave is like nothing we’ve seen before. The rampant spread of more contagious variants pushes the threat to Africa up to a whole new level,” said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa during a virtual press briefing on 1 July.

“更多的传播意味着更多的严重疾病和更多的死亡，因此每个人现在都必须采取行动，并提高预防措施，以阻止紧急事件成为悲剧。”

执行董事乌干达病毒研究所庞蒂亚诺·卡利布（Pontiano Kaleebu）表示，印度最初在印度首次确定的三角洲变种比其他变体高60％。该变体是在非洲五个国家中的三个国家中的三个国家（埃及，埃塞俄比亚，摩洛哥，南非和突尼斯），上个月报告了最高的案件。

In Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Delta variant had been detected in 97 and 76 per cent of the total samples analysed respectively, the WHO meeting heard.

世卫组织将不断增长的案件归因于缺乏对传输预防措施，疫苗不平等和无效实施公众的遵守health和社会措施。

截至本周（7月12日），与英国和美国的数字分别为119.02和100.05人，每100人在非洲只有4.24人，每1005人至少接受了一剂的剂量，每1005人和100.05人，根据Covid-19我们的数据世界。

乌干达疫苗咨询委员会负责人戴维·斯塞瓦达（David Sserwadda）告诉scidev.net它将是一个世界范围的陷阱“如果一个地区接种疫苗，另一个地区没有接种”。

Moeti added: “While supply challenges grind on, dose sharing can help plug the gap. We are grateful for the pledges made by our international partners, but we need urgent action on allocations. Africa must not be left languishing in the throes of its worst wave yet.”

尤纳Tegegn Woldemariam,世卫组织国家翅tative to Uganda, called on global North countries to share their COVID-19 vaccines with African countries and others through the COVAX facility, which delivered 1.6 million vaccines over the past weeks and 20 million doses since the roll-out started in the continent.

非洲联盟特别使节兼非洲Covid-19-19疫苗收购任务团队负责人Mayisiwa说：“我们不会让这种大流行成为艾滋病毒，并继续前进……杀死我们的人民。我们将不允许允许第四和第五和第六波。”

非洲疾病控制与预防中心主任约翰·恩肯加斯冈（John Nkengasong）回忆起在与艾滋病毒/艾滋病的早期斗争中的类似经历。

“I spent 29 years in the area of HIV/AIDS and saw first-hand the suffering, the trauma of our continent where millions of Africans died because anti-HIV drugs were not accessible. Never should history repeat itself,” said Nkengasong. “Not on our watch.”

这件作品由Scidev.net的撒哈拉以南非洲英语桌子制作。