Africa: Coronavirus Hampers Africa's Fight Against Malaria, TB

African countries have imposed tough measures against COVID-19. But it may come at the cost of other untreated diseases such as malaria and AIDS.

As early as February - when the coronavirus outbreak was still almost exclusively restricted to China - experts were raising the alarm: Once the virus arrived in Africa, the continent's poor healthcare system meant certain catastrophe.

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