Africa is ill-equipped to respond to the
deadly corner virus outbreak the World
Health Organization said Saturday the
global health body is concerned about
the spread of the virus in countries
with weak health systems on the
continent if truly we have various
entities on the continent and it becomes
a larger issue the ability to procure
Diagnostics in a timely fashion to
support that person will still be
limited director-general of the whu-oh
dr. Terry Oh skipper uses said this at a
meeting of 36 African health ministers
of the EU headquarters in Addis Ababa
for fiddling from Geneva the EU says
that is managing to fill in the gaps in
some member states we have weak public
health institutions weak systems health
systems we have gaps in the Diagnostics
we have gaps also for the treatments and
the measures we need to take quickly but
I think by joining our collective
efforts as African Member States by the
leadership of WTO and the joint effort
between WTO and Africa CDC we managed
very quickly to fill in the gaps of the
Diagnostics capabilities in the
continent Egypt was the only nation on
the continent to confirm conferred 19
mid-february
the virus has claimed the lives of over
2,000 people and they have been a
facility 8,000 of cases reported in
China and other nations more than 23,000
people have recovered from the virus the
W show declared the outbreak a public
health emergency late last month