When the coronavirus hit the world about two years ago, many including the World Health Organization initially had thought the disease's impact will be disastrous on Africa.
The World Health Organization and the Centres for Disease Control have reasons to believe that because pandemics always have a disastrous impact on the African continent. Whether natural or man-made, Africa doesn't escape it.
By the end of 2020, just over 2.5 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Africa. This is only 3.5% of the total number of detected cases in the world. The victims of the disease on the continent with population 1.3 billion people were about 60 thousand cases.
For Africa, even the most pessimistic forecasts of the World Health Organization and Centres for Disease Control did not come true. For the majority of Africans, COVID-19 is still a virtual threat because of which, nevertheless, the population continues to be subjected to strict quarantines.
Africa has a history pertaining to disease. As the world's second-largest continent after Asia, the African continent has experienced unstable government, political unrest, corruption, and other diseases that continued to hamper the developments on the continent.
HIV/AIDs, a disease initially blamed on monkeys brought from the Philippines to the United State of America, by the World Health Organization, had seriously attacked both original Africans on the continent of Africa and African-Americans simultaneously.