Covid red flag for Africa: cases edge up

And Unicef warns that, if the continent’s children continue to be kept from school, we will have a lost generation

08 October 2020 - 19:13 By claire keeton

For the first time in three months, Africa is reporting a “slight increase” in its weekly count of new cases of Covid-19 overall, the Africa CDC and World Health Organisation Africa region has reported...

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