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COVID-19 in Africa — pandemic could be far more deadly than thought

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coronavirus deaths have been officially reported.The report, led by the Imperial College London (ICL) COVID-19 Response Team, says that as of Nov.

20, 477 deaths in Khartoum state were reported to be related to COVID-19.It estimates the true figure to be between 14,300 and 17,990 higher than that.The report also estimates that as much as 38 per cent of the population of Khartoum was infected.Dr.

Oliver Watson, an infectious disease modeller at ICL and one of the report’s authors, says scientists cannot analyze deaths in the developing world the same way they do in developed countries because deaths are not always correctly registered and death data is not always accurately gathered.

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