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COVID cases in Africa were underreported New studies indicate that COVID infections and deaths in Africa could have been higher than previously reported. Volunteers in South Africa transfer a COVID-19 patient to a hospital In Zambia, nearly one in every five deceased people brought into Lusaka s central morgue over the summer tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a new study by the Boston University School of Public Health (SPH).  The authors of the study have said their results challenge the view that Africa somehow dodged the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, published in theBMJ global health journal last week, indicate that low numbers of reported infections and deaths across Africa may result from lack of testing, with the coronavirus taking a terrible but invisible toll on the continent.

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