The dampened course of COVID-19 in Africa might reveal innovative solutions

By Moustapha Mbow1, Bertrand Lell2,3, Simon P. Jochems4, Badara Cisse5, Souleymane Mboup6, Benjamin G. Dewals7, Assan Jaye8, Alioune Dieye1, Maria Yazdanbakhsh4

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly and extensively to most countries in the world, resulting in considerable mortality in Europe and the United States, as well as in numerous upper-middle-income countries in South America and Asia. Experts pre- dicted millions of COVID-19 deaths in Africa because many countries in the continent rank poorly on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index. However,

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