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- Quick action. Getty Images. Most places of worship in African countries have re-opened after the easing of restrictions. The first case on the continent was confirmed in Egypt on 14 February.
- Public support. In a survey conducted in 18 countries in August by PERC, public support for safety measures was high - 85% of respondents said they wore masks in the previous week.
- Young population - and few old-age homes. The age of the population in most African countries is also likely to have played a role in containing the spread of Covid-19.
- Favourable climate. A study conducted by researchers in the University of Maryland in the US found a correlation between temperature, humidity and latitude, and the spread of Covid-19.
Mar 23, 2022 · KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — There are no Covid fears here. The district’s Covid-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional...
COVID-19 pandemic in Africa; Disease: COVID-19: Virus strain: SARS-CoV-2: Location: Africa: First outbreak: Wuhan, Hubei, China: Arrival date: 14 February 2020 (4 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days ago) Confirmed cases: 4,155,451 (as of 23 March 2021) Active cases: 331,375 (as of 23 March 2021) Recovered: 3,713,065 (as of 23 March 2021)
- What Africa Got Right
- What’s Happened since?
- The Downsides of Aid
- Five Steps
- The Way Ahead
In 2017, following the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the African Union launched the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to help prepare the continent for epidemics and pandemics. Millions of dollars of investment by members of the African Union and organizations such as the Africa Development Bank, the World Bank...
In the early months of the pandemic, more than 70 countries imposed restrictions on the export of medical materials — including the raw materials needed to make diagnostics. It wasn’t until the African Union established the Africa Medical Supplies Platform in June 2020 that the continent was able to start procuring medical supplies at a pace that b...
Historically, efforts to assist Africa have tended to be siloed. They take a top-down approach, with decision-making coming from a central body outside the continent, not from African institutions and experts. Efforts have generally focused on short-term crisis management, not on the kinds of sustainable systems, such as manufacturing capability fo...
Multilateralism will always be crucial to preventing and responding to epidemics and pandemics. But Africa will be able to benefit from the advances it has made in disease surveillance only if its approach to public health is reconfigured towards self-reliance. This could be achieved in five steps. Invest in health and disease.African leaders must ...
Unlike in previous disease outbreaks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa has been a key player in the acquisition of scientific knowledge that has guided the global response. For two years, hundreds of geneticists across the continent have worked seven days a week, often through the night, to sequence strains of SARS-CoV-2. And companies worldwid...
Jul 15, 2021 · WHO African Region. WHOAFRO. COVID-19 deaths rose by more than 40 per cent last week, reaching 6,273, or nearly 1,900 more than the previous week. The number is just shy of the 6,294 peak,...
There are several reasons why predictions of COVID-19 ravaging African countries were wrong – but two stand out. The first is limited scientific knowledge of how the virus behaves in different populations and environments. The second is an underestimation of Africa’s ability to respond to the pandemic.
Dec 14, 2021 · An 83 per cent surge in COVID-19 cases during the past week in Africa, driven by the Delta and Omicron variants, is causing fewer deaths than previous spikes, the World Health Organization...
