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Africa CDC emphasizes crucial need to intensify Covid-19 testing, tracing – Business Standard

“Testing is the number one tool to fight this pandemic, because without testing we will be fighting blindly,” said John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa CDC

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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) emphasized the crucial need to intensify Covid-19 testing and tracing to effectively control the virus and limit transmission across the continent.
“Testing is the number one tool to fight this pandemic, because without testing we will be fighting blindly,” said John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa CDC, Xinhua news agency reported.
“We also need to trace people who are infected, isolate them and treat them,” he said on Thursday,…

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