Meanwhile, a rather obvious possibility stares us in the face: What if some African governments are doing a better job than our own of managing the coronavirus? “One reason why we may be seeing what we are seeing is that the continent of Africa reacted aggressively,” John Nkengasong, the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told me. “Countries were shutting down and declaring states of emergency when no or single cases were reported. We have evidence to show that that helped a lot.”
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Good for Africa.
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Not all all African countries. Check out Tanzania.
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Just remember that if there is no effective vaccine developed, countries that imposed early lockdown merely delayed their epidemics. Once international travel resumes...
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Certainly more proactive than the UK and the USA.
South Africa and Senegal in particular stand out as responses to emulate.
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Yep - Africa learned well from Ebola and established some institutions that actually work.
In reply to black It was yesterday that I read this article, was very impressed & which country took the lead? Likkle Rwanda! I was happy & glad.
