Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ² Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; National Health Laboratory Service Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Fann, Université Cheik Anta-Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
• ⁴ Centre des opérations d'urgences sanitaires du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal.
• ⁵ National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁶ Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁷ Infection Control Africa Network, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁸ Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, and National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals University College London, London, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: jbn16@pitt.edu.