Michele Spartari, AFPAfrica CDC's Dr John Nkengasong said the continent has begun to bend the curve slowly.Average daily cases of coronavirus in Africa fell last week, a"hopeful sign" for the continent's fight against the disease, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Africa had recorded 1 147 369 cases as of Thursday morning, about half of which were in South Africa, which has the fifth-highest total globally. But Nkengasong noted Thursday that countries in West and Central Africa were showing"similar trends"."We take this news with cautious optimism because we really want our population to continue not to show what we call prevention fatigue."Nkengasong also announced Thursday that Africa had crossed the threshold of 10 million Covid-19 tests, suggesting that some progress has been made in addressing the continent's considerable testing limitations.
The Africa CDC announced last week that it would start large-scale antibody testing and that seven countries would participate in the first phase: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Nigeria and Morocco.
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