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"Coroners in Tunisia—which is experiencing its fourth and worst wave of the
COVID-19 pandemic— have run out of space, meaning the dead are often left in
crowded hospital rooms alongside still suffering patients for 24 hours. The
morgues are full, the health ministry says. Even the dead, it seems, are
suffering.
“We are in a catastrophic situation… the boat is sinking,” Tunisia’s health
ministry spokesperson Nisaf Ben Alaya told reporters this week. “The health
system collapsed, we can only find a bed in hospitals with great difficulty. We
are struggling to provide oxygen… Doctors are suffering from unprecedented
fatigue.”
Tunisia, in North Africa, has 4 percent of its citizens fully vaccinated, more
than twice the average across the continent, where the Delta variant has
decimated whole towns. Vaccines delivered through COVAX, donated from the
world’s wealthiest nations, have arrived in small doses, leaving an already
vulnerable part of the world with no defenses. Just over 1 percent of Africa’s
1.3 billion people are fully vaccinated according to the WHO and vaccines that
are scheduled to finally arrive next month will only scrape the surface when it
comes to distribution.
“Alarm bells should be going off,” Tom Kenyon, chief health officer at Project
HOPE and former director of the Center for Global Health at the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNBC. “Given the horrors we just saw
in India, that should be cause for alarm and stimulate action.” Kenyon predicts
Africa’s worst case scenario will soon be more dire than Asia’s."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
