Health
Covid cases surge in parts of Africa amid second wave that is ‘killing people silently’ – The Independent
Coronavirus is on the rise again across the continent, posing a new, possibly deadlier threat
At the centre of a terrifying coronavirus surge, 242 patients lay in row after row of beds under the soaring metal beams of a decommissioned Volkswagen factory.
Workers at the vast field hospital could provide oxygen and medications, but there were no intensive care unit beds, no ventilators, no working phones and just one physician on duty on a recent Sunday Dr. Jessica Du Preez, in her second year of independent practice.
In a shed-like refrigerator behind a door marked BODY HOLD, carts contained…
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