Trying to solve a Covid mystery: Africa’s low death rates - The Indian Express

Sierra Leone, a nation of 8 million on the coast of Western Africa, feels like a land inexplicably spared as a plague passed overhead. What has happened — or hasn’t happened — here and in much of sub-Saharan Africa is a great mystery of the pandemic.

Kamakwie, Sierra Leone There are no COVID fears here. The districts COVID-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional hospital, th… [+11396 chars]

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