Unexpected Low Covid-19 Mortalities Across Africa: What Could have Happened?

Onoja, AM;¹ Oloche, JJ;² Jombo, GTA;³ Onoja, TA⁴

¹Department of Haematology and Blood transfusion, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria.

²Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria.

³Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University.

⁴Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria.

Correspondence: Dr. Onoja MA,

Abstract

COVID-19 mortalities have continued to be surprisingly low across Africa against all the earlier predictions. This has baffled the global scientific community and several hypotheses and theories have been propounded to explain the underlying factors for this unexpected occurrence. We found out that none of the theories is free of technical flaw, no matter how as plausible as it may appear it does not fully explain this phenomenon. Hence, we conclude that the mystery behind COVID-19 on African soil is yet to be unraveled. Meanwhile preventive measures already on ground should be sustained to keep the disease permanently low.

Keywords: Africa, COVID-19, Mortalities, Unexpected.