Hospitals overwhelmed in Senegal's capital as virus surges
Health workers disinfect themselves after taking swabs tests of patients inside a Covid-19 coronavirus ward that houses suspected cases in Pikine Hospital in Dakar on April 23, 2020. PHOTO | FILE
The West African country has suffered a third wave of virus infections in recent weeks, with cases rising from a few dozen a day late last month to about 1,700 in July.
Health authorities have registered most of the new cases in Dakar, a city of over three million people.
