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Enigma – this is the word Dr Ahmed Kalebi used to describe how Kenya and the rest of Africa has escaped the harsh reality of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Even experts – including those who predicted the worst – do not have a clear answer as to why Africa has been largely spared from the worst of the pandemic.
In May 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) predicted that 83,000 to 190,000 people in the continent could die from Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic. WHO also projected there be between 29 to 44 million infections in the same period.
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