Africa reaches 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths as danger grows

NAIROBI, Kenya – Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs desperately short. “We are more vulnerable than we thought,” said John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Few does of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived, and a variant of the virus first identified in South Africa is already posing a challenge to vaccination efforts.