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A huge thank you to Professor's Gordon and Tobias for setting the stage for us today! True leaders in the field.

Thank You Gordon - very inspiring knowledge

what are the implications of current transmission and surveillance on policy formulation around regional and global travel. How should scientific evidence best feed into policy formulation for African countries, contexts?

Leah thank you for bringing up this point, indeed this is how we move research into impact. Any thoughts colleagues?

Indeed COVID-19 has shown us the importance of vaccine and drug manufacturing regionally.

Great summary Joanes. Thank you!

Yes, great summary indeed Joanes, well done

Great to see this heightened science policy interface!

evidenced informed policy making - Kenya got it right @kadondi Kasera

Great insights @Kadondi Kasera. On genomic surveillance, to what extent should we looking out for de novo virus mutations in African contexts? What capacity exists at the moment ?

how does modelling take into account the patterns of animal consumption in relation to pandemics, and to what extent changing these animal consumption patterns are a priority for policies?

The idea of collaboration between research entities and government from start is an excellent one. It allows for buy-in for research output, leading to worthwhile policy briefs

Leah, would also be good to hear from Prof Gordon on the same question regard sequencing capacity given

considering that covid-19 affected literarily all sectors and they were all expected to support emergency and recoveries including economic recovery. @Kadondi Kasera, from the policy brief, did you detect multi-sector contribution and horizontal policy coherence?

what key policy message that can be considered for the National Disaster Management Bill (2021)?

kenay

You mentioned the arrival of the virus from China or UK. Is there study about transmission within Africa (from an African country to another African countries).

kenya

@ Charles TonuiYes,

In Kenya, we have had a number of economic measures to try and cushion the impact of COVID-19 on our society

These range from tax refunds, tax rebates, tax waivers and cash transfers

In addition, KES 5 Billion has been allocated towards local manufacture of basic medical equipment and supplies for local use

There has been an economic stimulus amounting to KES 53.7 billion

For infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, environment and manufacturing

Thank you Dr Kabondi for joining us and your very informative remarks. Appreciate it!

Thank you for having me

Sorry, I will stepping out to join another meeting

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Core points from Measures of covid 19 surveillance and effectiveneddCulturing in SenegalPCR testing in BotswanaGenomics: sequencing helps to determine from other sources of transmissionApproaches are Still undeveloped and underutilized inLittle surveillance efforts in AfricaCapacity to do PCR across country wide was slowInclusion of universities was limited. Strong reliance on hospitals rather than research institutions[Capacity is building and being enhanced across most parts of the country Contact tracing, isolation/quarantineContact tracing not effective in most parts. It is difficult to do in high density areas, it is technologically driven, it requires high government commitment

With apologies, I will have to leave in a few minutes for another meeting. Thank you everyone.

Thank you Nicki for the great discussion!

I have another meeting to attend. Thanks for the fruitful meeting!

Thank you sorry I joined late! Great take away messages

Thanks to all…