What could be the potential reasons for relatively low coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) fatality rates in Africa? The case for Ethiopia

摘要

In December 2019, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection occurred in China that later spread across the globe. On February 12, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) officially named the disease caused by the novel coronavirus as coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [1].