Is this why Africa has low Covid-19 deaths?

Vendors carrying traditional medicine in jerrycans, stand outside a stall which has graffiti against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) within Kibera slums in Nairobi, July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

As the threat of a Covid-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing load of infectious and non-infectious diseases often led to its being discussed in apocalyptic terms.
 

However, it has not turned out quite that way. On September 29, the world passed the one million reported death mark (the actual figure will, of course, be higher). On the same day, the count for Africa was a cumulative total of 35,954.