(Reuters) – Africa has not reached an endemic phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the burden of disease has been brought down to a minimum level with only sporadic outbreaks, the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
“With (an) 11% positivity rate and the severity of what we are seeing now, that is the waves that keep coming and going … it doesn’t meet the definition of endemicity,” the Africa CDC’s John Nkengasong told a news conference.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon and George Obulutsa; Writing by Alexander Winning; Editing by Alex Richardson)
