Dr Laurent Musango, WHO Representative was invited to make a presentation on COVID-19 at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Moka on 15 July 2020 on the occasion of the 5th Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture 2020.
During his presentation, Dr L. Musango elaborated on the situation on COVID-19 at the global, African and local levels to 50 participants, social distancing requirement obliged and some 650 online participants.
‘Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate with 230,000 cases reported to WHO in a single day’, said Dr L. Musango, who added, ‘all countries are at risk. However, not all countries have been affected in the same way.’ WHO Representative in Mauritius pointed out that South Africa is too much affected with COVID-19 as compared to rest of the countries in the African Region. He also indicated that WHO is following on a number of indicators to evaluate the performance of countries in fighting COVID-19. These indicators include Case Fatality Rate (CFR), Proportion of Mortality of Health Workers and Capacity Testing, among others.
