Africa region WHO bosses discuss new Covid 19 wave

By Wilson Wambua

World Health Organization(WHO) will hold an open forum to discuss the Covid 19 second wave in Africa.

The presser will explore ways of dealing with the resurgence of infections that now claims thousands daily. Other participants are the Centre For the Aids Programme Of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).

Speakers and panelists that will give the way forward are:

• Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
• Mr. Prosper Zo’o Minto’o, Regional Director for Western and Central Africa, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, Director: CAPRISA, Co-Chair: Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 and Professor of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.