How Nigeria, other African countries are fighting coronavirus

Health officials attend to flight passengers at the gate of entry at the Murtala International Airport in Lagos, on March 2, 2020.

Now the WHO is holding two simultaneous regional meetings on the coronavirus in Dakar and Nairobi with the United Nations and international partners, said a source familiar with the meetings.Only two cases have been recorded in sub-Saharan Africa – Senegal on Monday and Nigeria last week – since the virus broke out in China in December.

Health ministries are also obliged to apply the WHO’s International Health Regulations , which require them to be able to report epidemics and cases early, said Pierre-Marie Girard at the Paris-based Pasteur Institute Foundation. But no new cases have been recorded for 13 days, a development welcomed by the WHO. The authorities however still have to wait a total of 42 days without new cases to declare the end of the epidemic.

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