BRAZZAVILLE, April 14 (Xinhua) -- African countries need to stay vigilant and weigh the risks before relaxing COVID-19 measures, despite the decreasing infections, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday in a statement, noting that the continent is faced with risks of possible resurgence and new variants.
Africa is called for vigilance, as it is experiencing its longest-running decline in infections since the onset of the pandemic, reads the statement released by the WHO regional office for Africa, adding that the weekly cases have fallen for the past 16 weeks, after recording around 18,000 cases and 239 deaths in the week ending on April 10, a decline of 29 percent and 37 percent respectively.
