Liberia recorded its first COVID-19 case on 16 March 2020. The case-patient self- reported to the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) on 15 March 2020. Sample was collected and tested ...
Ghana FELTP which is the hub for training field epidemiologists in English speaking West Africa (with the exception Nigeria) has its residents and alumni involved in responding to the COVID- 19 ...
Burkina Faso recorded the first case of COVID-19 on 9 March 2020. The Burkina Faso Field Epidemiology Training Program, (the Regional FETP that houses 8 other FETP programs) responded to the pandemic ...
On 21 March 2020, Angola recorded the first two positive cases of COVID-19. Since then, under the guidance of the Minister of Health, a total of 14 residents of Cohort V of the Angola Field ...
Contact tracing is one of the critical surveillance strategies for controlling the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracing is a process of monitoring persons who have been in exposed to another person ...
In partnership with the Uganda Ministry of Health (MoH), AFENET and CDC, Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) has deployed 32 alumni and residents to support the COVID-19 ...
Together with National Public Health Institute of Liberia, the LFETP team worked built contact tracing surge capacity for the COVID-19 response by training 133 medical and Master of Public Health ...
As of 23 March 2020, a total of 110 residents of the EFETP were supporting various fronts of the COVID-19 response: 47 residents were supporting contact tracing; 25 were assigned to the rapid ...
In Zambia, 39 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed as at 2 April 2020. These cases involve both imported and local transmissions. In view of the potential spread of coronavirus to other regions of ...
As soon as the COVID-19 outbreak was declared in China on 7 January 2020, the Ministry of Health (MoH) started to prepare for possible spread of the outbreak to Uganda. During the preparedness phase, ...
South Africa recorded its first COVID-19 case on 5 March 2020 and since then confirmed cases have risen to 1,280 with two (2) recorded deaths as of 30 March 2020. In an effort to curb the spread of ...
As of 30 March 2020, Zimbabwe had seven confirmed cases of COVID-19 and a single death. Four of the cases were imported, while three were contact cases. Therefore, the Ministry of Health and Child ...
