Open AccessUnexpected Low Covid-19 Mortalities Across Africa: What Could have Happened?
Author(s) -
AM Onoja,
JJ Oloche,
Gta Jombo,
TA Onoja
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
western journal of medical and biomedical science/western journal of medical and biomedical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2736-0415
pISSN - 2735-9697
DOI - 10.46912/wjmbs.34
Subject(s) - covid-19 , phenomenon , geography , development economics , biology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , epistemology , virology , medicine , philosophy , pathology , outbreak
COVID-19 mortalities have continued to be surprisingly low across Africa against all the earlier predictions. This has baffled the global scientific community and several hypotheses and theories have been propounded to explain the underlying factors for this unexpected occurrence. We found out that none of the theories is free of technical flaw, no matter how as plausible as it may appear it does not fully explain this phenomenon. Hence, we conclude that the mystery behind COVID-19 on African soil is yet to be unraveled. Meanwhile preventive measures already on ground should be sustained to keep the disease permanently low.