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Since the novel coronavirus outbreak began in China last December, it has spread across the world and now threatens to become a global pandemic. The virus, formally known as Covid-19, has infected more than 90,000 people globally and killed more than 3,000. Though the majority of cases and deaths remain in mainland China, these past read more...
Nigeria and other African countries learned key lessons on viral outbreaks from ebola
The novel coronavirus outbreak has exposed a lack of global research on ways to combat the spread of infectious diseases, with health authorities failing to learn lessons from previous flare-ups, experts said Tuesday.
Their continent has so far only registered two coronavirus cases, but sub-Saharan African governments are looking to their experience with Ebola as they prepare their fragile public systems for outbreaks of the new virus. Confronted with multiple diseases -- malaria, cholera, measles, as well as Ebola -- most African countries are struggling with fragile public healthcare systems.
In 2014, an Ebola outbreak stormed West Africa, leaving more than 11,000 dead mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and also reaching Nigeria and Mali.
"SARS turned out to be a blessing," Dr. Leong Hoe Nam said. "We realized how infectious diseases spread and how we have to be on top of the curve."
Trump's coronavirus plan should take a page from Singapore. Data collection and testing in the US have not exactly inspired confidence.
In Hong Kong, armies of janitors constantly clean streets, metros, buses and elevators. Waiters dispense hand-sanitizing gel when you enter a restaurant.
Since the novel coronavirus outbreak began in China last December, it has spread across the world and now threatens to become a global pandemic. The virus, formally known as Covid-19, has infected more than 90,000 people globally and killed more than 3,000. Though the majority of cases and deaths remain in mainland China, these past