And if the day of Friday March 27 were a "biological Bomb" or, has minimum, accelerator of the propagation of the coronavirus in Kinshasa? It is the concern expressed by several observers after one day spectacular, marked by a strong multitude of the population.
Bus stops, taxis and taxi-bus, markets, supermarkets, bakeries, banks…All these places were taken by storm by the Kinshasa people wanting to supply with this "total confining" of four days announced by the governor of Kinshasa, Gentiny Ngobila. A confining finally cancelled in the evening after a meeting at Primature.
Except that, the rule of distance was completely ridiculed by a crowd which hustles in front of the banks and the trade. What to fear the worst. Some go until comparing this day with that of February 19, 2020 in Lombardy (Italy) at the time of the match of the European League of the Champions, Atalanta Bergamo - Valence. A match which, according to several specialists, played a role in the explosion of the number of cases of coronavirus in this country which, knew the most death in the world due to Covid-19.
The fourteen next days (maximum time of incubation of the virus), will tell so many on the fate of Kinshasa, a megalopolis of more than ten million inhabitants. While waiting, the capital already crossed the bar of fifty contaminated.
Corneille Kinsala N’soki
(CKS/Yes)