Africa Has Been Spared So Far From Coronavirus. Why?

14 February 2020

Some 24 countries apart from China have registered cases of the coronavirus, now officially named Covid-19. None of them are in Africa, despite the increasingly tight links between the two regions. DW explores why.

About 2 million Chinese live and work on the African continent. Africans are also increasingly visiting China for business and study.

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