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Health Check: Covid testing cuts Apache death rate

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A sign warns against the Covid-19 virus near Tuba City, Arizona

2020/07/29 GMT

Covid testing cuts Apache death rate

BBC World Service - Health Check, Covid testing cuts Apache death rate

Covid testing in homes of White Mountain Apaches helps reduce death rate from Covid-19

Latest global roundup of Covid-19; How testing the Apache community in Arizona has helped to cut Covid death rate; The disabled people in Chile who feel forgotten in lockdown

It’s six months since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern. There are now a quarter of a million new confirmed cases every day and the total now stands at more than 16.5 million. We hear from the WHO’s Dr Margaret Harris about how cases are still rising fast in the United States, Brazil and India – and that even where there has been a drop in cases, testing and tracing should still continue in case of a spike in the number of infections. 

The White Mountain Apache community in rural Arizona saw its first case of Covid on 1st April. Dr Ryan Close explains how 'test, track and trace' has resulted in 25% fewer deaths in tribal members than in other parts of the state, even though indigenous populations often have poorer health outcomes.  

In the Chilean capital Santiago many neighbourhoods have been in quarantine since mid-March, making it one of the longest lockdowns of the whole pandemic. Restrictions are now easing in some places, but many of the 16% of the population who have disabilities feel they have been overlooked during lockdown.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Paula McGrath

(Picture: A sign warns against the Covid-19 virus near the Navajo Indian nation town of Tuba City, Arizona. Photo credit: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images.)

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