Like the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease crisis, the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) now hit the television screens. The biggest handicap from my experience in outbreak response, leading the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in Liberia in West Africa is testing capacity. looking at the complexity of testing CoVID-19 and the supply chain for laboratories, the reagents, staffing, etc. Tolbert Nyenswah is a Senior Research Associate in the department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Nyenswah is also a member of the Global Health Index International Panel of Experts which asses the overall health of nations globally based on a multitude of health indicators.

Source: Front Page Africa February 28, 2020 07:41 UTC