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COVID-19 Pandemic has the potential to overwhelm the underserved health care systems of African countries characterized by inadequate infrastructure and too few medical personnel In responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic, many African countries are using a combination of containment and mitigation activities but in this commentary, we focus on what we term the Non-SHEF2 (S: Social distancing, H: Hands, E: Elbows, F: Face, F: Feel) model related control and containment measures which include seven key measures against COVID-19 doped ‘TITHQC2’ namely, T: Travel-related measures, I: Information and guidance, T: Treatment;H: Hospital containment measures;Q: Quarantine, C: Community containment measures, C: Case detection and contact tracing COVID-19 is a reality and demands rapid and decisive action to be taken © Frankline Sevidzem Wirsiy et al
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