Scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) say nearly a quarter of a billion people in Africa could contract coronavirus within the first year of the pandemic.
But they think more people will survive it than in the US and Europe because so many Africans are young.
Their study, published in BMJ Global Health, says between 150,000 and 190,000 Africans could die from Covid-19.
It says 5.5 million people would need hospital treatment, overwhelming services already struggling to treat malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
Coronavirus has been relatively slow to spread in Africa but has already taken hold in camps for displaced people in South Sudan.
Source: BBC
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WHO and its chief must stop the no,nsense ok, we are fed up with your bill gate infected speeches. sh.ut up and go to h.ell, fire burn you. Madagascar is a great example. shame we wont take the 666 vaccines of bill gate. you are not God but enemies of human being. Africans will never die, our God is above your evil kingdom. any bees you are about to release catch the the fire of God. you and your allies d.ie mysteriously in Jesus name. Amen