Africa’s COVID threat hits ‘new level’ as Delta variant spreads
Al Jazeera
Daily infections rise threefold on the continent with more than a dozen African countries reporting their worst figures.
Monrovia, Liberia – Driving past warehouses and overgrown walls, an ambulance pulls up at a side entrance of a former medical centre at a disused United Nations military base in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. The site has been rehabilitated and spruced up to serve as the principal COVID-19 treatment unit in the country, which has seen infections surge by more than 300 percent in the past two weeks. As the ambulance drops off a new patient, workers at another truck offload oxygen cylinders before taking away a pile of empty ones.
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