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From today's Grauniad:
Fourth Covid wave fills hospitals in CongoThe Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a fourth wave of the coronavirus that is threatening to put greater pressure on its health system than at any time during the pandemic.Congo is the least vaccinated country against Covid-19 in the world with just 0.06% for the population fully vaccinated, Agence France Presse reported earlier this month. Fewer than 300,000 people out of a population of 90 million have received at least one dose, or just 0.33%, Reuters data indicates.The vaccine rollout was hindered by a lack of funds and supplies, remote populations and rumours claiming that vaccination made people sterile or that Africans were to be used as “guinea pigs”.
A patient breathes oxygen from an old tank, at the St. Joseph Covid-19 treatment centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 24 December. Photograph: Reuters
Now Covid patients fill hospital wards and tents are needed to cope with the overflow, Reuters reports.
“We have experienced the three previous waves gradually, but in the fourth wave cases have jumped overnight,” said Francois Kajingulu, the head of the St Joseph Covid Treatment Centre inKinshasa. “On Monday we had 5-6 cases and on Saturday we went straight from 30 to 36.”
Congo registered 6,480 new cases in the week of 13 December - more than double the number hit during its previous record week in June, World Health Organization data show.
