Africa and the Third Wave of Covid-19
In 2018 the WHO published a report in which they discussed the knowable unknown involving a health crisis that they knew would happen, but not the precise form it would take. Now we have the case of Covid-19.
In some ways, African countries have an advantage being in the third wave after witnessing outbreaks in first Asia, and secondly Europe and North America.
They have seen the speed and intensity of the illness unfolding in China and witnessed Europe’s all too slow realisation of the danger as Covid-19 spread outwards from Italy. They have also seen the strategies that have ranged from central state authoritarianism through to varieties of liberal utilitarianism, with individual government’s strategies and policies often shifting dramatically as the extent of the danger becomes apparent.