The Evidence: Covid 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and Testing

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Claudia Hammond and a panel of international experts look at the latest research into Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which is sweeping through the world. As the disease spreads how is sub-Saharan Africa handling the pandemic? We also look at tests – how accurate are they? Should we be testing ourselves at home? On the panel are Folasade Ogunsola, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Ravi Gupta, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Medicine, Matthew Fox, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Boston University and Dr Margaret Harris, a Spokesperson at the World Health Organisation. The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection. Producers: Geraldine Fitzgerald and Caroline Steel Editor: Deborah Cohen

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
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0:29.8	satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about. So if you
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0:40.0	Hello and welcome to the evidence from the BBC World Service which is produced in
0:44.8	collaboration with Welcome Collection. I'm Claudia Hammond and I'm here with my
0:48.9	knowledgeable panel of guests to answer the many questions you've been sending us about the COVID-19
0:54.8	pandemic. Now later on we'll be focusing on how countries in sub-Saharan Africa
0:59.6	are handling the pandemic. Experts were predicting a big crisis but so far numbers of
1:05.2	cases have been far lower than in Europe and the US. And we're going to tackle the
1:09.7	topic of testing, the different kinds of tests, how accurate they are,
1:14.0	and whether we should be testing ourselves at home.
1:16.0	And joining me this week,
1:18.0	our Follesharde Ogan Scholler,
1:20.0	who is professor of clinical microbiology
1:22.0	at the University of Lagos in Nigeria,
1:24.8	and she's also a member of the COVID-19 Working Group for Nigeria's Center for Disease Control.
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