Tunisian hospitals overwhelmed as COVID-19 surges across Africa
Hospitals in Tunisia and across much of Africa are overwhelmed as the Delta variant fuels a July upsurge of COVID-19 to levels in Africa unprecedented since the beginning of the pandemic.
Tunisia, with 575,002 cases and 18,968 deaths registered, has the highest rate of confirmed cases and deaths of any continental African country. It has seen 48,116 cases and 1,587 deaths of COVID-19 per 1 million inhabitants. However, the Delta variant has driven caseloads and the strain on inadequate health care systems to unprecedented heights in countries across the Maghreb, all of West Africa and indeed the entire African continent.
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