A man wears a face mask, due to the global coronavirus disease outbreak, as he rides his motorbike along a shopping street in Dakar, Senegal March 18, 2020. ADDIS ABABA: Africa will likely see increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in coming weeks because it's"very likely" that some cases are slipping through the net, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control said on Thursday .
Nkengasong said the number of confirmed cases in Africa was expected to rise in coming days and travel bans would delay but ultimately fail to contain the virus. One possible scenario, he said, was"people are coming in and they are slipping through and we are not picking them. It is very likely."Nkengasong said testing was going to increase as more kits became available. US company Abbott, Swiss-based Roche Diagnostics and California-based Cepheid's GeneXpert were all ramping up production, he said. The testing could be rolled out quickly through existing infrastructure for HIV testing, he said.
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