Senegal’s health ministry said Monday that hospitals in the capital Dakar were “close to saturation” due to a surge in Covid-19 patients, with overworked medical personnel facing burnout. The West African country has suffered a third wave of virus infections in recent weeks, with cases rising from a few dozen a day late last month […]
Senegal’s health ministry said Monday that hospitals in the capital Dakar were “close to saturation” due to a surge in Covid-19 patients, with overworked medical personnel facing burnout.The West African country has suffered a third wave of virus infections in recent weeks, with cases rising from a few dozen a day late last month to about 1,700 in July.
The national director of public health institutions, Ousmane Diallo, told AFP that the third wave had been more severe than the previous two. A surge in coronavirus cases is also causing delay in receiving Covid test results in the poor nation of 16 million people.Senegal has recorded over 57,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, of which more than 1,200 have been fatal.
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