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ajlm-1457	Amukele, Timothy; Spence, Ryland N.	African countries established COVID-19 testing in one month: Here’s how they did it	2021		.htm	text/html	3761	243	50	Wellcome and DFID support Africa COVID-19 continental response with € 2.26 million [homepage on the Internet]. In addition, as stated in a media briefing on 04 February 2020, Africa CDC planned to set up a referral system where the 16 laboratories that would be set up to perform COVID-19 testing could receive samples and support other countries who were unable to test.19 It is not clear if this referral system was ever established but it likely was not needed for long because by 11 March 2020, John Nkengasong, the director of Africa CDC, had announced in an interview that there were 42 African countries with COVID-19 testing capacity at the central level.2 Like the WHO, the efforts of Africa CDC transcended laboratory testing and included significant efforts in five other high-priority areas for coronavirus control, namely surveillance, infection prevention and control, clinical care, risk communication, and the distribution of donations by other groups and individuals.20 Pre-existing disease surveillance networks also helped in the response to COVID-19 in Africa.	cache/ajlm-1457.htm	txt/ajlm-1457.txt