COVID-19 pandemic waves: how prepared is West Africa for managing a high COVID-19 caseload? Urgent actions needed.
COVID-19
genomic surveillance
vaccination
waves
Journal
The Pan African medical journal
ISSN: 1937-8688
Titre abrégé: Pan Afr Med J
Pays: Uganda
ID NLM: 101517926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
06
08
2021
accepted:
03
10
2021
entrez:
2
3
2022
pubmed:
3
3
2022
medline:
4
3
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35233269
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2021.40.249.31107
pii: PAMJ-40-249
pmc: PMC8831218
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
249Informations de copyright
Copyright: Virgil Kuassi Lokossou et al.
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