Jop de VriezeScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.So far, sub-Saharan Africa has not faced the extreme numbers of cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus some public health experts feared would occur.
Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, has reported only 33,000 cases and just under 750 deaths among its nearly 200 million citizens.