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Air China staff help each other put stickers on their masks, worn as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a check-in area at Beijing Capital Airport on February 24, 2020. – China on February 24 declared an immediate and “comprehensive” ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice believed responsible for the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

“This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases,” said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital. He also speculated that it could be “there isn’t much travel to that particular part of China from Africa — back and forth”.Could it be a coverup or cases that have gone undetected?

“In the beginning, we had two, South Africa and Senegal… we have 29 out of 47 countries that have laboratories that can perform the tests. So this is progress,” he said.Another positive is that Ebola outbreaks that have struck parts of West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have generated valuable skills for handling coronavirus.

According to some health experts, the absence of evidence of the coronavirus in Africa shouldn't be interpreted as evidence of absence. More likely the result of insufficient testing.

We will continue to have few and even less. What do you mean. Our unity won't allow such. And we are Godly

So many reasons this could be not true. Healthcare accessibility is a huge issue in Nigeria.

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