Scientists are sprinting to outpace the novel coronavirus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Soumya Swaminathan
Published:February 24, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30420-7
The number of people with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has risen above 75?000 globally, over 99% of whom are in China, with more than 900 cases in 25 other countries as of Feb 20, 2020.Science, however, is stepping up to the challenge. Consider the example of Africa's efforts to scale up its capacity to detect any cases of infection.