Within days of his inauguration in June, Evariste Ndayishimiye, Burundi’s president, ended months of official denial about coronavirus by ordering mass testing in the commercial capital of Bujumbura. Well he might. His predecessor, Pierre Nkurunziza, who had scoffed at the virus and entrusted Burundi’s protection to God, paid a heavy price for his nonchalance. He died, almost certainly of Covid-19 itself.
布隆迪總統埃瓦里斯特?恩達伊希米耶(Evariste Ndayishimiye) 6月就職幾天后,就結束了數月來官方對新型冠狀病毒的否認。他下令在該國商業首都布瓊布拉(Bujumbura)進行大規模檢測。此舉是非常應該的。他的前任皮埃爾?恩庫倫齊扎(Pierre Nkurunziza)曾對病毒嗤之以鼻,并將布隆迪的防疫工作托付給上帝,結果為自己的冷漠付出沉重的代價。恩庫倫齊扎已經身亡,幾乎可以肯定是死于新型冠狀病毒肺炎(COVID-19,即2019冠狀病毒?。?。