Not Just COVID-19, East African Countries Are Facing Floods Too With More Than 250 Already Dead
East Africa is witnessing incessant rains leading to many people having to flee their homes and also leading to loss of lives. Kenya has been the hardest hit with the government recording 194 deaths. In Rwanda 55 people have died and floods have killed 16 in Somalia. In Uganda high water levels have trapped an estimated 200 patients inside a hospital.
If coronavirus wasn't causing enough problems for the already ailing healthcare system in Africa, many of the countries in the region are now facing floods after heavy rains killing more than 250 people already.
Reuters
According to BBC, East Africa is witnessing incessant rains leading to many people having to flee their homes and also leading to loss of lives.
Kenya has been the hardest hit with the government recording 194 deaths. In Rwanda, 55 people have died and floods have killed 16 in Somalia. In Uganda high water levels have trapped an estimated 200 patients inside a hospital.
Reuters
The major downpours in recent weeks has had devastating effects for the local populations that were already fearing the worse due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In Kenya, floods and landslides have killed nearly 200 people in the past month, while Uganda's Lake Victoria has overflown, submerging houses, a hospital and bridges and displacing thousands.
Vanguard
Four teenagers drowned in Kenya on Thursday after a river burst its banks, a day after the government announced 194 people had been killed due to floods and landslides since the rainy season began in April, and large areas of farmland and water infrastructure destroyed.
The East African countries have already been dealing with the coronavirus crisis, and now the floods have thrown life completely off the rails. For the governments, the job has become a lot harder as another calamity mounts.
