17 december 2020 - 18:41:00 AO/AR Panafrican News Agency
Africa CDC calls for tightened threshold for relaxing lockdown measures
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched new guidelines to help the continent’s 55 countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the continent badly through a second wave
Covid-19: Africa CDC tightens measures to combat second wave
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The African Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched new guidelines to help the continent’s 55 countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the continent badly through a second wave.
The guidelines on the use of the Rapid Antigen tests for the coronavirus emphasize the need to increase rapid testing as a means to curb the spread of the virus.
It also calls on countries to increase the threshold for relaxing their national pandemic control measures.
The threshold should be increased to 3% from the current 5% of the people testing positive out of any population sample at any given time, according to the new guidelines published on Thursday.
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The African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Thursday warned that there would be terrible consequences if African countries go without a coronavirus vaccine.
The Africa CDC Director, John Nkengasong, said failure by African countries to timely receive the coronavirus vaccines while other countries stock up in excess could undermine the continent’s development record.
It could also upset global efforts to curb the spread of the virus, Nkengasong noted.
“It would be extremely terrible for the world to watch Africa not receive the vaccines while some countries have bought the vaccines in excess.
” African countries would have our developmental process challenged if we do not get this vaccine soon,” Nkengasong told reporters.
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