Covid-19, Ebola, Measles in Congo… How prepared is Congo?
Africa against Triple Threat!!!
As the world battles the deadly corona virus which has stretched the health facility of even the best health care systems in the world, the Democratic Republic of Congo seems even more embattled.
The Central African country faces a fight against triple health threats- COVID-19, Ebola virus and Measles. Each of these diseases prove fatal when prevalent in a society, how much more when a single country has to contain the three simultaneously.
Congo has currently recorded 4,974 cases of coronavirus with 112 deaths as at 16 June, 2020. Africa as continent has a total of 257, 843 cases and 6,926 deaths.
It comes at a time when the country is equally battling a measles epidemic that has claimed the lives of about 6,000 people according to health reports....