Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
AS IF A CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC is not bad enough, Madagascar has been suffering another public health scare of late: bubonic plague. The most serious bout came in 2017 with 2,348 cases, 202 deaths and a rush on (face masks) long before anyone had even heard of Covid-19. Conditions in jails — deemed similar to those in medieval Europe — were partially blamed. Each year since, outbreaks have spread during (roughly August to January), although numbers are now well down.
