Brazil should be a warning for all Africans - it should show us what happens when Corona lands in a country that has millions of people living in such places

Places without water or sanitation. Our time is running out!

Maybe we should start comparing apples to apples.

Total Number of REPORTED cases in AFRICA: 45,044
Total Number of REPORTED cases in INDIA: 42,505
Total Number of REPORTED cases in CHINA: 82,877

Total Population in AFRICA: Approximately 1.33 Billion People
Total Population in INDIA: Approximately 1.37 Billion People
Total Population in INDIA: Approximately 1.43 Billion People

Why use official figures and we all know the figures are not representative to what's on the ground? Here are your close estimates based on living conditions and the scale of how this infection is contagious.
Africa 10 million
India 12 million
China 15 million

@masukuma should also read a book on slavery in brazil to learn how those people, mainly blacks (and mixtures of black x white) came to live in those cramped favelas of brazil, instead of blaming them for their poverty and "lack of water and sanitation". During the close to 400 years of slavery in brazil i.e 1501-1866, about 5 million blacks from west africa/angola/guinea were shipped to work in plantations in brazil. When slavery was abolished in brazil, many freed slaves left the plantations and moved to urban areas to get work or a place to live. Since they couldnt get housing in the white cities they settled in the outskirts and built informal settlements. At the time it was also illegal for blacks to own land.

Since the end of slavery in the 1860s, successive Portuguese and Brazilian governments have refused to spend resources to uplift the living conditions of the former slaves. The slaves were left destitute since they couldn't own land in rural or urban areas and they couldn't go back home to africa, and the only place they could live were the favelas. At least kenyans in kibera or mathare have rural homes they can run to so as to hide from corona but not so for those in brazil slums. So you should sympathize with your brothers in brazil. The white man is to blame.

@Mavegges am suprised it has taken this long to understand that comprehension is an issue here. I've seen you even blaming yourself "I may not be a good teacher..." but what is clear is people cannot put numbers in perspective.


March 20 Qatar had 470 cases. What does that mean? Clearly we may not have got to our peak and yet we have people acting and behaving stupid.