Seka Lazare would have known that he would one day have this wish Adopo never thought: Get away from the land of your dreams as soon as possible. The Ivorian came to the four decades ago United States, to New York City. Most recently, the 61-year-old struggled as an Uber driver – and faced death. In a hospital, he almost died of a corona infection. He made it, is healthy again and said to the British Times: “I want to go home.”
No apoclayptic forecasts were made
The personal experience and the sober numbers make this seem understandable. In the US state new York Almost 28,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 24. There are also officially few infected and dead people in other African countries. On a continent basis, this means that although the 1.3 billion people make up 17 percent of the earth’s population, around 76,000 people register less than two percent of the cases worldwide, and there are significantly fewer confirmed deaths (around 2,600) than in Belgium (8,900). They had U.N. and their health agency WHO warned weeks ago of an impending apocalypse (with up to ten million infected).
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