Policy Brief – Impact of the Covid19 epidemic on the availability of healthcare in Africa

Context to Research

From the start of the pandemic to March 2021, more than 117 million people have contracted the Covid19 infection worldwide resulting in nearly 2.6 million deaths, according to the Covid-19 Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University. According to the World Health Organization, Africa in the same period reported nearly 4 million confirmed cases, i.e., 3.3% of the cases reported worldwide and more than 106, 000 deaths.