On this edition of Africa 54, coronavirus has infected more than two-million people worldwide; United States to investigate the origin of the deadly coronavirus, as China refutes claim is was made in a Chinese lab; Millions of people face the possibility of hunger as cities across the African continent impose coronavirus lockdowns; Medical experts worry the camps of people displaced by Boko Haram lack the spacing and sanitary conditions to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus; The Democratic Republic of Congo reports three new cases of Ebola, including two deaths.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, federal agents on the U.S. borders, at ports and in postal facilities are not letting up their guard against another dangerous killer – the artificial opioid, fentanyl. It’s cheaper and up to one-hundred times more powerful than heroin. As VOA White House bureau chief Steve Herman reports, man’s best friend is about to get some reinforcements in the war on drugs.