Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

During this period, there have been over 433 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6 million deaths, reported to the World Health Organization

Hong Kong has so far recorded a total of 4 279 deaths related to COVID-19.

Pandemics and the social and economic crises they cause are not inevitable, says Winnie Byanyima (United Nations). The lessons learnt from fighting AIDS, TB and now COVID can help us tackle the next outbreak.

Follow this live blog for the latest updates on how the crisis is impacting research and innovation, and what governments, funders, companies, universities, associations and scientists are doing to stop or cope with the pandemic.

During 2020, residents of the West Nile sub-region of North West Uganda resisted government-imposed lockdowns and quarantine centres. As an alternative, traditional leaders and elders proposed local techniques for controlling disease outbreaks.

It is important that scientists continue to be seen as providing expert and accurate information, while maintaining their independence from government.

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting universities and research institutes across the world. But the same institutions are also working very hard to find out how the disease can be stopped and its effects mitigated.

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Time and time again—as we have seen in the case of the Ebola crisis, HIV/AIDS crisis, and now the COVID-19 pandemic—Africa has proved resilient.