That interview with Melinda Gate happened in April of 2020, we are now in 2022 and the cumulative covid related death from Africa, which stood at a little over two hundred thousand as of November 2021, is still significantly lower than that of the US (771,000) and that of Europe (over 1.5 million)
I think the number of death attributed to COVID-19 in Africa cannot be trusted. I think it might be far lesser than that reported. There are allegation that Africans falsify figure to secure grants.