{"id":45658,"date":"2020-12-27T03:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=45658"},"modified":"2020-12-27T03:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T02:23:57","slug":"bill-gates-confesses-says-he-was-wrong-about-covid-19-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/bill-gates-confesses-says-he-was-wrong-about-covid-19-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Confesses, Says He Was Wrong About COVID-19 In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bill-gates.jpg.webp\" alt=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bill-gates.jpg.webp\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said that he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Gates and his wife, Melinda had in more than one occasion, warned that there will be dead bodies all over the streets of Africa if the world does not act fast enough.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>But in his end of the year note, Bill said he was happy his prediction about Africa has not happened, \u201cOne thing I\u2019m happy to have been wrong about\u2014at least, I hope I was wrong\u2014is my fear that COVID-19 would run rampant in low-income countries. So far, this hasn\u2019t been true,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>\n<em>Source \u2013 Daily Post<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said that he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6907],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-45658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-covid-19-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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