Africa is preparing itself to avoid another surge of the COVID -19 pandemic. The continent has reported over 4.5 million cases of COVID-19 infections so far.
African Health Ministers will meet on Saturday, to review the strategy that the continent set at the beginning of 2020, to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and seek better ways to keep the continent with minimal cases.
Uganda, Kenya and Morocco are reporting some cases of the variant that has caused a spike in COVID-19 infections in India.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director, Dr John Nkengasong, says the meeting will be looking at ways to monitor the situations.
“The meeting will address the need for an adjusted strategy which will be looking more at around the areas as to how do we look at monitoring more, surveillance for this variant, surveillance for hotspot, how do we then intensify our efforts,” says Nkengasong.
The Africa CDC says some of the reasons that led India to its current state are still visible in countries across the continent. These include mass gatherings.
African Health Ministers to meet to review strategy to avoid another surge of COVID -19 pandemic
