COVID-19 pandemic waves: how prepared is West Africa for managing a high COVID-19 caseload? Urgent actions needed

The ECOWAS Region and the world have learnt a lot in the last year and a half concerning the pandemic. As the pandemic continues to evolve, the region needs to put together all these lessons in other to better protect its people, rebuild its economy and strengthen the regional health security for be...

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Autores principales: Lokossou, Virgil Kuassi, Umeokonkwo, Chukwuma David, Okolo, Stanley, Nguku, Patrick Mboya, Ogbureke, Nanlop, Sombie, Issiaka
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233269
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.249.31107
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author Lokossou, Virgil Kuassi
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description The ECOWAS Region and the world have learnt a lot in the last year and a half concerning the pandemic. As the pandemic continues to evolve, the region needs to put together all these lessons in other to better protect its people, rebuild its economy and strengthen the regional health security for better regional prosperity. We reviewed the response mounted by the region from January 2020 to July 2021 and the existing body of knowledge. We recommend that the region quickly increase the COVID-19 immunization coverage, sustain the enhance genomic surveillance, improve testing and the strengthen point of entry surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-88312182022-02-28 COVID-19 pandemic waves: how prepared is West Africa for managing a high COVID-19 caseload? Urgent actions needed Lokossou, Virgil Kuassi Umeokonkwo, Chukwuma David Okolo, Stanley Nguku, Patrick Mboya Ogbureke, Nanlop Sombie, Issiaka Pan Afr Med J Commentary The ECOWAS Region and the world have learnt a lot in the last year and a half concerning the pandemic. As the pandemic continues to evolve, the region needs to put together all these lessons in other to better protect its people, rebuild its economy and strengthen the regional health security for better regional prosperity. We reviewed the response mounted by the region from January 2020 to July 2021 and the existing body of knowledge. We recommend that the region quickly increase the COVID-19 immunization coverage, sustain the enhance genomic surveillance, improve testing and the strengthen point of entry surveillance. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8831218/ /pubmed/35233269 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.249.31107 Text en Copyright: Virgil Kuassi Lokossou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.249.31107
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