Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; National Health Laboratory Service Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Fann, Université Cheik Anta-Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
⁴ Centre des opérations d'urgences sanitaires du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal.
⁵ National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁶ Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Infection Control Africa Network, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, and National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals University College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: jbn16@pitt.edu.

Shaheen Mehtar et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;8(7):e881-e883.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30212-6. Epub 2020 Apr 28.

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; National Health Laboratory Service Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Fann, Université Cheik Anta-Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
⁴ Centre des opérations d'urgences sanitaires du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal.
⁵ National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁶ Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Infection Control Africa Network, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, and National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals University College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: jbn16@pitt.edu.

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