Covid in Africa
More or Less
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent? We talk to Dr Justin Maeda from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Ghanaian public health researcher Nana Kofi Quakyi about tracking Africa’s outbreak. Producer: Jo Casserly Picture: Volunteers wait to feed local people during the weekly feeding scheme at the Heritage Baptist Church in Melville on the 118 day of lockdown due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020. Credit: EPA/KIM LUDBROOK
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to More or Less, |
| 0:01.4 | we're the podcast all about the numbers all around us |
| 0:03.8 | in the news and in life, and I'm Josephine Cassily. |
| 0:06.7 | MUSIC |
| 0:10.9 | So this was a shocking moment, |
| 0:12.5 | and if this really happens in Africa, |
| 0:15.4 | we will be able to handle it. |
| 0:17.9 | Early March in Addis Adabar, Ethiopia, |
| 0:20.3 | and four people are sitting in an air-conditioned meeting room |
| 0:23.1 | and looking in disbelief at some infographics. |
| 0:25.9 | It's a PDF from Imperial College model |
| 0:28.5 | that was trained to predict over 3 million deaths |
| 0:32.3 | across the African continent. |
| 0:34.6 | If nothing is unmitigated. |
| 0:37.0 | This was an emergency emergency planning meeting |
| 0:39.1 | at the Africa Center for Disease Control. |
| 0:41.2 | MUSIC |
| 0:45.6 | One of the attendees was Dr. Justin Mayerder. |
| 0:48.0 | He's a Tanzanian epidemiologist |
| 0:49.8 | and head of the Surveillance and Disease Intelligence Unit |
| 0:52.4 | at the African Center for Disease Control or CDC. |
| 0:56.0 | They monitor trends in diseases on the continent |
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