https://www.wired.com/story/cities-poorer-countries-risk-covid-19-spreads/

Covid-19 is spreading quickly in the global south, posing particular problems in rapidly growing cities. Brazil now reports more than 460,000 cases, second only to the US. In Rio de Janeiro, the Maracanã stadium has been turned into a makeshift hospital, but beds, intensive care units, and protective equipment for staff are lacking. In Manaus, a city of 2 million in the Amazon, funeral homes and cemeteries have been overwhelmed by the number of bodies to bury. The number of Covid-19 deaths in Brazil are likely much higher than the official death toll of nearly 28,000, as the country performs fewer tests per capita than the US or Europe.

Hot spots are emerging across Africa. Doctors and public health experts have been warning about an unchecked outbreak in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, which could spread elsewhere in West Africa. Cases have risen sharply since Ghana’s government eased lockdown restrictions in the capital, Accra, and in Kumasi.