The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr John Nkengasong, laments the continent's limited testing capacity and says other essential tools are similarly lacking. coronavirus
PROTECTION. In this file photo, a hygienist working with the Senegalese Ministry of health with help from The Alliance for International Medical Action, waits for his turn to take off his Personal Protective Equipment ahead of disinfecting the area housing patients infected with the COVID-19 at the Fann Hospital in Dakar on April 1, 2020. File photo by John Wessels/AFP
"We are also being elbowed out in the space of personal protective equipment and commodities to support the entire spectrum of the response, ranging from prevention of transmission, prevention of deaths and prevention of harm," Nkengasong said.As of Thursday there were around 11,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, on the
But he acknowledged that, like in other regions, Africa's numbers were not"perfect" and said testing limitations would make community transmission of the coronavirus harder to detect and control.
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