By Omolola Afolabi
A high-ranking Burkina Faso politician has become the first COVID-19 death in Sub-saharan Africa.
He died just as the World Health Organisation (WHO) urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”.
“Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday, pointing out that “in other countries, we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain tipping point”.
Africa has lagged behind the global curve for coronavirus infections and deaths but has seen a significant rise in
cases in the last few days.
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