Recall that on several occasions, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda warned that there will be dead bodies all over the streets of Africa if the world does not act fast enough.
However, the co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said that he is happy that his predictions about Africa did not come to pass.
He said;
“One thing I’m happy to have been wrong about—at least, I hope I was wrong—is my fear that Covid-19 would run rampant in low-income countries. So far, this hasn’t been true,”
In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, case rates and death rates remain much lower than in the U.S. or Europe and on par with New Zealand, which has received so much attention for its handling of the virus.
“The hardest-hit country on the continent is South Africa—but even there, the case rate is 40 percent lower than in the US, and the death rate is nearly 50 percent lower.
“We don’t have enough data yet to understand why the numbers aren’t as high as I worried they would get — but gave probable reasons Africa was not as affected as expected.”
