Health Alerts

A major challenge addressed in the latest WHO African region weekly bulletin is South Africa’s ‘massive, rapidly rising caseload’ - the country is now ranked fifth in COVID-19 case numbers across the globe, sitting behind USA, Brazil, India and Russia. The new hotspot for COVID-19 infections is now Gauteng Province ‘closely followed by increasing caseloads in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal’. The WHO chief of emergencies has said that the escalating situation in South Africa could be a forewarning of what could occur in the rest of the continent. More on the global outlook from the WHO Situation Report of July 21 and a summary of the latest developments by CIDRAP. Read More