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The Impact of African scientists: How years of building scientific capacity in Africa have been a real game-changer in the response to COVID-19


The Impact of African scientists: How years of building scientific capacity in Africa have been a real game-changer in the response to COVID-19
Proud scientists from the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria. ©AGEGID
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On February 27, 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa reported its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The patient was an Italian man living in Nigeria, who had just returned from Milan in Italy, which was then a cluster for the disease in Europe. Shortly after the patient was identified, a sample of the virus was sent to a small town called Ede, located in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, over 200 kilometers away from Lagos. ....

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The Impact of African scientists: How years of building scientific capacity in Africa have been a real game changer in the response to COVID-19


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On February 27, 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa reported its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The patient was an Italian man living in Nigeria, who had just returned from Milan in Italy, which was then a cluster for the disease in Europe. Shortly after the patient was identified, a sample of the virus was sent to a small town called Ede, located in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, over 200 kilometers away from Lagos. There, a team led by Professor Christian Happi, analyzed the sample and was able within 48 hours to share the very first genome sequence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from Africa with the global science community faster than what was being done in some developed countries and, more importantly, much faster than sending it to a laboratory overseas. ....

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