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Covid in Africa

Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent?

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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Mon 3 Aug 202015:50GMT
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