December 09, 2020

The Man Behind Africa's COVID-19 Response-Devex

Last December, John Nkengasong, director at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, watched events unfolding in China with concern — long before the rest of the world had turned its attention to what was then just a mysterious outbreak of atypical pneumonia. “I remember being in the United States during the Christmas break and reading these stories about Wuhan and getting worried that this was going to hit us,” he said. Weeks later, when there were still only 200 known cases of COVID-19, he wrote an article calling on African nations to gear up for any eventual spread of the coronavirus to the continent. Devex, 12/09/2020