Journal of Infectious Diseases and Diagnosis

The National COVID Emergency Response Centre (NACOVERC), Freetown, Sierra Leone

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Africa?s COVID-19 Third Wave: A Coupled Behavior-Disease System in a Mutual Feedback Loop
  Author(s): Jia Bainga Kangbai*, Mahmoud Sheku, Braima Koroma, Joseph Mustapha Macathy, Daniel Kaitibi, Foday Sahr, Angel Magdalene George, Fatmata Gebeh, Daphne Cummings Wray and Lawrence Sao Babawo
  
  A year after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic much of the Africa continent is now experiencing spikes in the number of COVID-19 cases and related deaths in what is now referred to as the third that barely went unnoticed in Africa. As of July 2021, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Nigeria, Libya, Kenya, Algeria, Zambia and Ethiopia that accounted for approximately 86% of the recently reported increase in COVID-19 could be aptly described as being at the forefront of the continent’s third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike those countries in Asia and Latin America that experienced what may generally being described as autochthonous COVID-19 third wave, Africa’s third wave COVID-19 cases are widely believed to have been triggered by imported cases. Africa like the rest of the world relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions almost at the same time; hence .. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2576-389X.21.6.155

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