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Sub-Saharan Africa preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic: A perspective of early career African scientists

2020-12-10

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Emerging highly transmissible viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2 pose a significant global threat to human health and the economy. Since its first appearance in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, SARS-CoV-2 infection has quickly spread across the globe, with the first case reported on the African continent, in Egypt on February 14 th , 2020. Although the global number of COVID-19 infection...

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10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16070.3
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