The virus that causes Coronavirus, similar to the viruses that trigger the flu, is seasonal and can die down when summer season, characterized by increased temperatures and humidity, units in.
South Africa has become a COVID-19 model for the continent in many ways since it confirmed its index case on 5th March, 2020. From the area of testing through to record number of recoveries, South Africa has been praised for pro-activeness in combating the virus.
"If we don't take time and our health system is overwhelmed, a lot of people won't get access to health care and even the deaths that we are worried about could go up" due to the number of Coronavirus cases recorded in the country, the General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson has cautioned.
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has hit back at critics of an untested herbal tonic that he is promoting as a treatment for coronavirus, despite it not having gone through clinical trials.
A ban on large funerals in South Africa has forced people to give up many traditions, but they have also rediscovered old ones, including "secret burials", as the BBC's Pumza Fihlani reports from Johannesburg.
