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Location: Skype
Date: Thursday, 26th March 2020
Company: N/A
Role: Strategic Communications Advisor

Countries across Africa are beginning to implement nationwide lockdowns to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. While initial numbers are low, widespread testing is challenging, and the numbers are predicted to snowball.

Given the specific social and economic conditions in many African countries, stemming the spread of the disease is a significant challenge.

Social distancing in inner-city slums, populations disproportionately affected by infectious diseases such as TB and HIV, dense populations and weak health systems all threaten to make this pandemic especially devastating in Africa.

In this interview, I talk to Lauren Gelfand to discuss the spread of Coronavirus within Kenya. We discuss the economic impact and the specific conditions that could make this virus devastating throughout Africa.

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Mentioned in the show:

• The Guardian: 'Community infections could happen any time': Kenya prepares for Covid-19 

• The Guardian: Minibuses keep Kenya’s wheels turning amid Covid-19 fears – in pictures

• AA: Kenyan under curfew amid COVID-19 pandemic

• Time: Coronavirus Prevention Measures Turn Violent in Parts of Africa as Nations Go Into Lockdown

• Al Jazeera: COVID-19: Kenyans brace for tough times as economic shock looms

• The African Report: Rural time-bomb remains as Kenya reacts faster than UK to coronavirus

• France24: Veteran of Ebola response says education, discipline needed to fight coronavirus in Africa - Eye on Africa

• CNN: What Africa can teach the world about beating the coronavirus

• BBC: Coronavirus: What the world can learn from Ebola fight

• The East African: Africa's web of creditors complicates coronavirus debt relief

• Brookings: Africa in the news: Debt relief in Somalia, government efforts to combat COVID-19, and new Boko Haram attacks

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