Is that according to another faulty model, or.....?
Ground Zero is Nigeria:
"COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa’s alarming hot spots" by Ruth Maclean New York Times, May 17, 2020
Isn't it funny how COVID (and the "terrorists") always show up where there is OIL?
DAKAR, Senegal — In the northern Nigerian city of Kano, the gravediggers of the city, one of the biggest in West Africa, say they are working overtime, and so many doctors and nurses have been infected with the coronavirus that few hospitals are accepting patients.
Officially, Kano has reported 753 cases and 33 deaths attributed to the virus, but in reality, the metropolis is experiencing a major, unchecked outbreak, according to doctors and public health experts. It could be one of the continent’s worst.
The coronavirus has been slower to take hold in Africa than on other continents, according to the numbers released daily by the World Health Organization, but blazing hot spots are beginning to emerge. Kano is only one of several places in Africa where a relatively low official case count bears no resemblance to what health workers and residents say they are seeing on the ground.
In Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, officials say that burials have tripled. In Tanzania, after cases suddenly rose and the US Embassy issued a health alert, the Tanzanian government abruptly stopped releasing its data.
Now is that from COVID or from the U.S. airstrikes that are killing civilians, and as for Tanzania, they are the ones who exposed the WHO testing fraud to the world.
Related:
The source gets credit, and the guy on the far right sure looks like an Anti-Christ.
They all do, in fact.
Kano’s state government, until recently, claimed a spate of unusual deaths was caused not by the coronavirus but by hypertension, diabetes, meningitis, or acute malaria. There is little social distancing, and few people are being tested.
Same in the U.S., but our $y$tem attributes every death to COVID.
“The leadership is in denial,” said Usman Yusuf, a hematology-oncology professor and the former head of Nigeria’s national health insurance agency. “It’s almost like saying there is no COVID in New York.”
He said he thought a significant portion of the population was probably infected in Kano, a city with an estimated 5 million people (although there has been no census since 2006).
Although they have now acknowledged they have a problem with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, authorities in Kano spent precious weeks denying it, despite the surge in what Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the state governor, called “mysterious deaths.”
“So far, there’s been nothing to suggest that they are linked with COVID-19,” Ganduje posted on Twitter on April 27, when, according to doctors in Kano’s hospitals, the city was already firmly in the grip of a serious coronavirus outbreak.
Then they probably aren't.
There was nothing mysterious about what doctors said they were seeing at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, the city’s main public hospital. Starting well before Kano’s first case was reported April 11, the hospital saw a steady stream of older patients with fevers, coughs, difficulty breathing, and low oxygen saturation levels, many of them with underlying health conditions.
Better get ready for it.
Doctors at the hospital called the government’s response team. Sometimes it took 24 hours to get a call back. Sometimes, the team refused to test or isolate patients, saying they did not qualify because they had not traveled recently.
About 60% to 70% of the elderly patients who went to the hospital and later died had arrived with full symptoms of COVID-19, said a doctor in the medical department, who, along with another doctor, spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared retribution.
One doctor said the department’s death registers for April showed far more patients had died than normal. Most patients were sent home, he said, and the hospital’s staff members often would hear later that they had died.
Just because it is in print doesn't make it true.
With no personal protective equipment except surgical masks, the doctors said they knew the risks they were running in treating these patients. They said that they begged the hospital management for N95 masks, face shields, gloves, and aprons, but that none came. They asked for an isolation center at the hospital, scared that patients with other ailments would be infected. They wanted the facilities fumigated. Nothing happened, and then it was too late. The doctors began to get sick. “All of us were exposed,” said the other doctor. “Ultimately, what we feared has happened.”
Twenty of the 91 doctors in the hospital’s medical department tested positive, the doctors said. Overall in Kano, 42 doctors and 28 nurses have tested positive, and one doctor has died, according to Dr. Sanusi Bala, chair of the Kano branch of the Nigerian Medical Association. Laboratory technicians in what was then Kano’s only testing laboratory got sick, too, and it closed for several days.
Nigeria, a country of about 200 million people, says it can in theory do 2,500 tests a day, and Kano up to 500, but it has been conducting far fewer tests, typically 1,000 to 1,200 daily. Test results in Kano can take two weeks. Doctors awaiting their test results cannot go to work. People in quarantine cannot leave.
The fact is, the Africans have had terrible experiences with the WHO and its patrons, to the point of ejecting them from their countries.
“If I say thousands of people are dying from COVID, I don’t think I exaggerated the figure,” said the doctor who begged for PPE. “So many people are dying without being tested, without even going to the hospital.”
You don't think you are or....?
While the government loosened lockdowns May 4 in the capital, Abuja, and biggest city, Lagos, it extended the one in Kano, but few people observe it. The many funerals are well attended, residents said.
Mourners watched as medical workers wearing protective suits buried the body of a Somalian man believed to have died of COVID-19, at a cemetery in Mogadishu last week (Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press/Associated Press).
Believed to have?
That could be anyone and they could have died from anything.
Many in the city think the coronavirus is a hoax, perhaps because public messaging about it is mostly in English, which most Kano residents do not speak, health experts said.
Others believe that a COVID-19 diagnosis is a death sentence, the experts said, and do not want their neighbors to think they are infected. So they avoid being tested and try to behave as if all is normal.
I have inject a comment here. Turns out the Africans are not as dumb as the pre$$ or the inherent racism in the White Man's Burden would imply. In fact, they look a lot smarter than most western (masked) sheeple.
By late April, the Kano state government finally admitted there was a COVID-19 problem and asked the federal government for help. Kano’s location, population, and connectivity to the rest of the region mean the consequences of an uncontrolled outbreak could be severe.
Already there are reports of hundreds more people dying “mysterious deaths” in Nigeria’s northern states of Jigawa, Yobe, Sokoto, and Katsina, including three emirs, or traditional Muslim rulers, and a former health minister.
“If Kano falls, the whole of northern Nigeria falls. The whole of Nigeria falls,” Yusuf said. “It spreads into the whole of West Africa and the whole of Africa.”
Can't say you haven't been warned.
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Related: Bill Gates is paying off this country’s $76 million debt
You can gue$$ what was the price.
The f**king worldwide reach of the ince$tuous global health mafia is a$tounding.
Also see:
"The World Health Organization says Niger has been struck by a new outbreak of polio, following the suspension of immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations health agency reported that two children were infected by the highly infectious, water-borne disease and that one was paralyzed. The outbreak was sparked by a mutated virus that originated in the vaccine and was not connected to a previous polio epidemic Niger stopped last year, WHO said in a statement. Earlier this month, WHO and partners announced they were forced to halt all polio vaccination activities until at least June 1, acknowledging the decision would inevitably result in more children being paralyzed."
Isn't Niger (of Joe Wilson yellowcake fame) next door to Nigeria, and get this, it was a vaccine-derived poliovirus via the WHO along with with other Global Polio Eradication Initiative spearheading partners: UNICEF, Rotary International, the US Centers for Diseases Control (CDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)!
These MONSTERS need to be STOPPED and JAILED NOW!
"Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political rallies. A foreign ministry letter seen by the Associated Press says the WHO representative to Burundi, Walter Kazadi Mulombo, has been declared persona non grata and must leave the East African nation by Friday. The letter says three WHO specialists also must go. The letter gives no explanation for the expulsions. Reached by phone and asked for details, Foreign Minister Ezechiel Nibigira hung up Thursday morning. The WHO representative, Mulombo, did not immediately respond to phone calls....."
BRAVO for BURUNDI, and that is a GOOD EXAMPLE for "FREE" WE$TERN GOVERNMENTS!
"President Paul Biya of Cameroon has acknowledged that the military massacred innocent people, including women and children, in a northwestern village in February after the government first denied it....."
They are SETTING GOOD EXAMPLES ALL OVER THE PLACE!
There are worse places to be stranded, and Spain's crisis must be abating something fierce because I have not seen anything in the Globe on them lately.
"For the first time, COVID-19 has been confirmed in a crowded civilian protection camp in South Sudan’s capital, the United Nations said Tuesday, a worrying development in a country that’s one of the world’s least prepared for the virus’s spread. The health ministry’s emergency preparedness manager, Dr. Mathew Tut, said the two infected people were South Sudanese and in their 20s. South Sudan was one of the last countries in Africa to confirm a case of the disease and now has 174. The prospect of the virus’s spread to refugee and displaced persons’ camps in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia has alarmed health and other aid officials as remote locations, travel restrictions, and shortages of medical supplies often make containment and treatment extremely challenging. As of late April, almost none of the 10 million people packed into such camps around the world had been tested for the virus, the Associated Press found."
That's one way of getting rid of the "surplus populations," and it sure bodes ill for Palestinians.
Can't go north, so better head south:
"South Africa began easing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns on Friday, with runners and dog-walkers returning eagerly to the streets but not all wearing the face masks that are now mandatory in the country with Africa’s most coronavirus cases. In Johannesburg, Cape Town, and elsewhere, people took a breath of fall air and some headed to the malls to buy warm clothes for winter, which brings a new challenge in combating the virus: flu season. South Africa has more than 5,600 cases of COVID-19. Concern among health workers remains high. On Friday, health workers, unions, and civil society members protested outside one of the country’s best-known hospitals, Chris Hani Baragwanath in Soweto, demanding personal protective equipment. As the country eases down one notch to Level 4 restrictions, many businesses can resume limited operations. Many mines, factories, and agricultural businesses can resume work in phases, starting with a third of employees. Restaurants can reopen for deliveries. People are now permitted to leave their homes for exercise between 6 and 9 a.m. A night curfew is in place from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. Public transport, including buses, can operate with restricted numbers of passengers, but the ban on domestic and international travel remains."
They are allowing this flight through:
"The US government is donating “up to 1,000” ventilators to South Africa to help the country respond to COVID-19 as the Trump administration addresses criticism that it hasn’t done enough for countries in need. “South Africa is the first country in the world to receive this state-of-the-art equipment” from the National Security Council and USAID, the US Embassy said in a tweet. Last week, however, Mexico said it received a US shipment of 211 ventilators as part of an aid package promised by President Trump. The United States soon will make similar donations to countries around the world, according to embassy officials. South Africa has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa with more than 11,300, including more than 200 deaths."
AID = CIA.
Now hit the bricks:
"South African stores can only sell shoes if they are “closed toe,” and short-sleeved shirts if they are promoted or displayed to be worn under jackets or jerseys, according to the latest list of government rules that spell out what’s allowed during a nationwide lockdown. The regulations published Tuesday are the latest addition to a plethora of state directives — ostensibly to limit economic activity and curb the spread of the coronavirus. Most South Africans are baffled about what purpose they serve."
Once again, Africans are more on the ball than I have been led to believe by my pre$$, and you guys thought apartheid was bad!
UPDATES:
"A crucial election was underway Wednesday in the East African nation of Burundi, where President Pierre Nkurunziza is stepping aside after a divisive 15-year rule but will remain “paramount leader” in the country that continues to reject outside scrutiny. The vote is one of the most important transfers of power in Burundi since independence in 1962. Some fear it could lead to violence as the previous election did in 2015. Few face masks were seen, even on the ruling party’s candidate, as voters crammed close to each other in line. Some paused to wash their hands. Burundi has been criticized for not appearing to take the coronavirus seriously. Nkurunziza himself attended crowded political rallies. The country has 42 confirmed virus cases."
"Locusts, COVID-19, and deadly flooding pose a “triple threat” to millions of people across East Africa, officials warned Thursday, while the World Bank announced a $500 million program for countries affected by the historic desert locust swarms. A new and larger generation of the voracious insects, numbering in the billions, is on the move in East Africa, where some countries haven’t seen such an outbreak in 70 years. Climate change is in part to blame. The added threat of COVID-19 imperils a region that already was home to about 20 percent of the world’s population of food-insecure people, including millions in South Sudan and Somalia. Yemen in the nearby Arabian Peninsula is also threatened, and United Nations officials warn that if locusts are not brought under control there, the conflict-hit country will remain a reservoir for further infestations in the region. Lockdowns imposed for the COVID-19 pandemic have slowed efforts to combat the locusts, especially imports of the pesticides needed for aerial spraying that is called the only effective control. “We’re not in a plague, but if there are good rains in the summer and unsuccessful control operations, we could be in a plague by the end of this year,” said Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting officer with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He later told a UN briefing in New York that “the locust invasion is most serious now in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia’’ and is also “very serious in southern Iran and in parts of Pakistan.’’
Iran says 10,000 medics are sick as virus fears rise in Mideast, and a plane crash in Pakistan killed top banking executives, a senior civil servant, and military officials returning to Karachi for Eid.
"Hundreds of people have been killed in a new burst of intercommunal violence in South Sudan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday, with “many more” injured and thousands displaced. Local authorities have expressed outrage at the killings over the weekend, the latest in intercommunal fighting that plagues a country trying to recover from five years of civil war. The United Nations mission in South Sudan on Wednesday said a patrol of peacekeepers reached the communities in Pieri, in northern Jonglei, to investigate the violence between armed Murle youth and Lou Nuer fighters. It found many huts burned to the ground....."
