African airlines’ performance updates by AFRAA – July 2021

The African continent continues to witness a significant increase in number of Covid 19 cases, shows new data from the African Airlines Association.  The situation seems to be getting out of control especially in South Africa where daily infection has now exceeded 15,000 cases. Some African governments are resorting to lockdowns again as a way to curb the surging COV2 infections and deaths. Europe is also not out of the woods yet, despite the fact that 50% of the adult population has been vaccinated. Globally the number of Delta variant infected cases reached 190 million out of which 6 million are