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Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future
International Journal of Infectious DiseasesVol. 93p233–236Published online: February 28, 2020- Nathan Kapata
- Chikwe Ihekweazu
- Francine Ntoumi
- Tajudeen Raji
- Pascalina Chanda-Kapata
- Peter Mwaba
- Victor Mukonka
- Matthew Bates
- John Tembo
- Victor Corman
- Sayoki Mfinanga
- Danny Asogun
- Linzy Elton
- Liã Bárbara Arruda
- Margaret J. Thomason
- Leonard Mboera
- Alexei Yavlinsky
- Najmul Haider
- David Simons
- Lara Hollmann
- Swaib A. Lule
- Francisco Veas
- Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid
- Osman Dar
- Sarah Edwards
- Francesco Vairo
- Timothy D. McHugh
- Christian Drosten
- Richard Kock
- Giuseppe Ippolito
- Alimuddin Zumla
Cited in Scopus: 119Soon after the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), was first identified in a cluster of patients with pneumonia (Li et al., 2020), in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 31 December 2019, rapid human to human transmission was anticipated (Hui et al., 2020). The fast pace of transmission is wreaking havoc and stirring media hype and public health concern (Ippolito et al., 2020) globally. When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease, (now officially named COVID-19) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 31st January 2020 (WHO, 2020a), the Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus justified the decision by stating that WHOs greatest concern was the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems.
