The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 epidemic. The country is already dealing with cholera, a measles epidemic that has caused 6,000 deaths since January 2019, as well as a new outbreak of Ebola in the Équateur province. At the same time, the country’s economy is very exposed to the unprecedented economic slowdown caused by global containment measures to “flatten the curve” with the IMF’s growth projections for the country downgraded to -2.2 per cent for 2020.
Tuesday 2 February, 2021