A locally sustainable approach to COVID-19 testing in Africa
Elijah Songok
Abstract
In their Comment, Pascale Ondoa and colleagues1 elucidate the impressive achievement of African countries on COVID-19 testing. The authors explain that the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through the Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing in Africa (PACT) programme, did 3·4 million COVID-19 tests in Africa by June, 2020. Although this figure translates to a mere 1700 tests per million people compared with 103 000 tests per million people in Italy and 195 000 in the UK, this outcome is a great achievement on a continent starved of economic and health resources.
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