Armed with lessons from Ebola, Africa braces for coronavirus surge

People wash their hands at the entrance of Uasin Gishu County headquarters in Eldoret Town on March 14, 2020. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG

When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature, health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the country’s fourth case of coronavirus.

The central African country was doing more generalised screening for disease long before China revealed the new virus that has killed around 7,000 people globally.

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