One Year of COVID-19 in the East African Community: An Overview of Response Activities

Authors: Sina Odunsi AB*, Kirumbuyo M, Adebayo YA, Ilesanmi E, Sina Odunsi AJ and Nuga BB

DOI: 10.23880/eij-16000210

Volume 5, Issue 4

Abstract

COVID-19 continues to stress and strain health systems in many countries around the world and the East African community (EAC) is not exempted. The EAC is a regional intergovernmental organization of six partner states: the Republics of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Kenya where the first COVID-19 case in the EAC was announced on 12 March 2020. Prior the emergence of the global outbreak, COVID-19, many countries in the EAC are being faced with the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and the chronic challenge of ineffective response to public health emergencies. In this article, the authors comment on the COVID-19 response in the first one year of the outbreak in EAC and the challenges that faced the response activities.

Keywords: Covid-19; Rcce; Surveillance; Response; Outbreak

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