Speed and scale of continent's third wave of Covid is 'unprecedented' and risks overwhelming hospitals
6 July 2021 • 6:00am
Digging a grave at Al Sahafa Cemetery, the largest in Khartoum, Sudan - where around 90 per cent of Covid deaths are believed to go unreported
Credit: Simon Townsley
Africa is facing a “perfect storm” of Covid-19, Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has warned, with cases surging by almost 2,000 per cent in just a month in some parts of the continent.
It is an “urgent, vital necessity” to increase vaccine supply to Africa as the delta variant begins to take hold, Mr Blair wrote in the foreword of a new report, published on Tuesday.