Billionaire Bill Gates, while presenting at the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) in Seattle, confessed that corona virus could hit Africa harder than China. The business mogul stated that African health systems could easily be overwhelmed if the virus got to the continent.
“The disease, if it’s in Africa. It’s more dramatic if it’s in China, even though I’m not trying to minimize what’s going on in China in any way,’
“Will this get into Africa or not and if so, will those health systems be overwhelmed?”
Gates was worried that the potential effect in Sub-Saharan Africa could be very dramatic. He went on to claim that if not controlled, coronavirus could evolve into a world pandemic. Bill Gates in his presentation said that the virus would have more grave effects than Ebola. The fatality rate of the new virus is however way lower than Ebola’s.
“If you look at Ebola, most of the excess deaths were caused because the health service shut down. It is not just direct effect, it is also the panic, the overload, and the things that affect health workers because you’re already at very limited capacity.”
So far, Africa has only reported one case of the deadly virus. There is a possible chance that other cases have not been reported. The flow of people between China and Africa has risen sharply in the last decade exposing the continent to the disease.
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