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Face à l’épidémie à Covid-19 en Afrique, l’ensemble des États du continent mettent en place des mesures sanitaires : préparations des systèmes de soins, recommandations individuelles avec l’application des « gestes barrières », mise en œuvre de mesures collectives (fermetures des frontières, restriction des déplacements, parfois confinement, interdiction des regroupements, etc.).

A few weeks ago, the UK Government made public its proposed strategy to address the COVID-19 outbreak (the SARS-CoV-2 virus) by building ‘herd immunity’, leaving the general public mystified by a concept it was little aware of. However, the British Society for Immunology was unimpressed, stating emphatically its objections to the government decision. In an open letter from its President, Professor Arne Akba, the Society flatly rejected the plan:

In a video that circulated on social networks from 26 February 2020, Professor Didier Raoult, virologist at the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infections de Marseille, announced that chloroquine could cure COVID-19 and ensure the "endgame" of the pandemic.

Somatosphere’s COVID-19 Forum brings together seventeen anthropologists and historians in an effort to share ideas, analytical frameworks and concerns about the ongoing epidemic from interdisciplinary perspectives.

As countries across the world struggle to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, rapid and accurate diagnosis has rarely been so important.

One of the hopes of people watching China’s coronavirus outbreak was that the alarming picture of its lethality is probably exaggerated because a lot of mild cases are likely being missed.