Coronavirus: Africa scrambles to ramp up Covid-19 testing By Peter Fabricius
Between last Thursday, April 23 and the previous Thursday, April 16, the number of coronavirus infections in Africa jumped 43% to 26,144, with 1,247 deaths. Dr John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control , said this increase was “remarkable”.
“If we don’t test, we don’t know how to open our economies. They are now locked down and… one of the indicators that will allow us to open the economies from the lockdown is the testing. To know who is infected and isolate them and then trace their contacts. That’s the importance of doing the testing as quickly as we can.”
And it is supporting the deployment of one million community healthcare workers across Africa to help trace the contacts of those who have been infected with the coronavirus. nothing without a healthy and productive workforce and so were very grateful for the AU/Africa CDC’s programme of accelerated testing.
It was also encouraging countries to expand their use of community workers to help the government track and trace the contacts of those who tested positive. “The government alone cannot do that.” It was necessary for Africa to pool its resources to succeed in the “very competitive” market for Covid-19 fighting equipment with one voice. He noted that orders for some equipment were taking three or more months to be met.
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