Table 2.

Comparison of COVID19 in South Africa and Egypt

	South Africa	Ghana	Egypt	USA
Positive cases*	83,890	12,929	50,437	1,680,400
Deaths*	1,737	66	1,938	99,130
Mortality rate*	2.07	0.51	3.84	18.0
CVD mortality burden‡	14.0	8.00	16.0	6.0
Hypertension prevalence	53.6	28.0	26.30	29.0
BCG commencement year	1974	1978	1974	–
Population size	57.2 M	53.5 M	91.5 M	328 M
Life expectancy	57.2	49.0	71.1	78.5
Poverty	53%	46%	25%	12%

*COVID-19 data as at 20 June 2020 obtained from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing#source-information-country-by-country. ^‡Indicates probability of deaths due to CVD between ages 30–70 years as at 2012. Data source: WHF