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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 29 August 2020

29 August 2020 — A hundred and one (101) new COVID-19 cases were…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 28 August 2020

28 August 2020 — Seventy (70) new COVID-19 cases were identified out…
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Health workers going through the drills of donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment during an outbreak of Marburg Hemorrhagic fever in Kapchorwa district, eastern Uganda in 2017.

How Previous Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks Helped Uganda Respond to COVID-19 Outbreak

For many public health workers in Uganda, responding to disease…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 27 August 2020

27 August 2020 — Forty-seven (47) new COVID-19 cases were identified…
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Health workers going through the drills of donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment during an outbreak of Marburg Hemorrhagic fever in Kapchorwa district, eastern Uganda in 2017.

How Previous Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks Helped Uganda Respond to COVID-19 Outbreak

For many public health workers in Uganda, responding to disease…
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certification cereony of 30 laboratory scientists who were recruited and underwent training in molecular diagnostics to scale up COVID-19 testing

WHO Demonstrates strategic commitment by supporting COVID-19 testing and laboratory capacity in Sierra Leone.

FREETOWN, 27 August, 2020 – The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 26 August 2020

26 August 2020 — Eighty-eight (88) new COVID-19 cases were identified…
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