Current efforts and challenges facing responses to 2019-nCoV in Africa

作     者：Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi Xu Lin 

作者机构：Department of Global Health and DevelopmentLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineLondonUK Faculty of PharmacyUniversity of IbadanIbadanNigeria Department of Thoracic Surgerythe First Affiliated HospitalZhejiang University School of MedicineHangzhou 310003P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Global Health Research and Policy》 (全球健康研究与政策（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第5卷第1期

页      面：238-240页

学科分类：08[工学] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：2019-nCoV SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Coronavirus Africa Outbreak Global Health Pandemic 

摘      要：The novel coronavirus is a pandemic that has started to creep into Africa thus making the virus a truly global,health security *** number of new 2019-nCoV cases has been rising in Africa,though currently lower than the cases reported outside the *** countries have activated their Emergency Operations Centres to coordinate responses and preparedness activities to the pandemic.A series of measures such as restricting travel,case detection and contact tracing,mandatory quarantine,guidance and information to the public among other efforts are being implemented across ***,the presence of porous borders,the double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases,poverty,poor health literacy,infodemic and family clustering,and most of all,weak health systems,may make containment *** is important for African countries to continue to intensify efforts and address the challenges to effectively respond to the uncertainty the pandemic poses.