Sub-Saharan Africa's experience fighting Ebola offers lessons for fighting coronavirus — including the importance of protecting health care workers, increasing testing capacity and engaging community leaders, Daniel Speckhard writes for CNNOpinion
Daniel Speckhard is president and CEO of Corus International, parent of international humanitarian organizations Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. He previously served in Republican and Democratic administrations as an ambassador with the State Department and a senior official at NATO. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
As the spread of the novel coronavirus accelerates around the world, sub-Saharan Africa has largely been spared -- until now. Recent days saw more African countries reporting cases and deaths from the virus, including in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. And the head of the World Health Organization has issued a stark warning:"Africa should wake up."Daniel SpeckhardThe rise of Covid-19 comes as an outbreak of another deadly virus, Ebola, appears to be ending in Central Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo.
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