Title: Why has the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Africa been insignificant compared to other regions? A descriptive analysis

Type Dataset Azeem Oluwaseyi Zubair, Muritala Olaniyi Zubair, Abdul-Rahim Abdul Samad (2020): Why has the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Africa been insignificant compared to other regions? A descriptive analysis. Zenodo. Dataset. https://zenodo.org/record/3788733

Authors: Azeem Oluwaseyi Zubair (Universiti putra Malaysia) ; Muritala Olaniyi Zubair (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria) ; Abdul-Rahim Abdul Samad (Universiti putra Malaysia) ;

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Summary

Method

The dataset contains several confirmed COVID-19 cases, number of deaths, and death rate in six regions. The objective of the study is to compare the number of confirmed cases in Africa to other regions. 

Death rate = Total number of deaths from COVID-19 divided by the Total Number of infected patients.

The study provides evidence for the country-level in six regions by the World Health Organisation's classification.

Findings

Based on the descriptive data provided above, we conclude that the lack of tourism is one of the key reasons why COVID-19 reported cases are low in Africa compared to other regions. We also justified this claim by providing evidence from the economic freedom index, which indicates that the vast majority of African countries recorded a low index for a business environment. On the other hand, we conclude that the death rate is higher in the African region compared to other regions. This points to issues concerning health-care expenditure, low capacity for testing for COVID-19, and poor infrastructure in the region.

Apart from COVID-19, there are significant pre-existing diseases, namely; Malaria, Flu, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola in the continent. This study, therefore, invites the leaders to invest massively in the health-care system, infrastructure, and human capital in order to provide a sustainable environment for today and future generations. Lastly, policy uncertainty has been a major issue in determining a sustainable development goal on the continent. This uncertainty has differentiated Africa to other regions in terms of stepping up in the time of global crisis.

More information

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3788733

Subjects

• Africa, COVID-19, infrastructure, health-care systems

Dates

• Publication date: 2020
• Issued: May 05, 2020

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Rights

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Access

Format

electronic resource

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