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welcome to the program nigeria has confirmed cases of cohen of virus disease seemingly brought from italy is the 1st confirmed case in sub-saharan africa the man is an italian working in lagos were returned from milan if you days ago officials are now trying to trace all the people who had contact with sins and during nigeria and warned against panic and of them us. this is how the virus 1st reach sub-saharan africa the 1st confirmed case here in lagos both thirty's are checking people as they arrive but it can be a while before an infection make someone feel ill enough to seek help. so the. walk through these screening in. the or. he said it to feel will. why is leading off he went to a hospital. nigeria's full functioning international airports are the focus now for intensify checks but the virus has landed and people are concerned. you can't you like china. to tell you so you know. we're not there was. sophisticated out. there is good about their. babies and i just hope that you are very very far from sobriety so make sure that the citizens are safer we have home port sorry we're going to cause you of all fortunately. those who it w

and so frank carlucci talked to hank cohen, senior director to the nsc in africa. he said hank, i need you to brief present reagan on this. cohen said, how much time do i have? curley said, you have 10 minutes. so, cohen went off and did the briefing. he saw him in the hall a day later and said i have the briefing. how long is it? 10 minutes. curley said, cut it down to five. cohen went back and cut the briefing down to five minutes, ran into him the next day and said i have the briefing down to five minutes. he said cut it down to two minutes. cohen goes back and does the briefing. he sees him in the hall the next day and he says i have got the briefing down to two words. he stops and says, well, give me the briefing. cohen said, renamo sucks. [laughter] so, briefings i think are extremely important. there were a lot of briefings that went on this process at various points. some that were part of the official u.s. government effort and some that were not, and those briefings were extremely important and need to be captured. so i would like to nominate a couple of a

theatre capital addis ababa thank you but let's get to cheryl cohen who is from the national institute for communicable diseases in south africa and she's also says she a professor in epidemiology at mit. and university in johannesburg thanks very much for talking to south africa girls has got perhaps a missed developed health system on the continent how ready is south africa. so surfing's for having me and you know south africa is prepared we've been monitoring the situation in iraq since the beginning you know when it was just a few cases in china and it wasn't a kid that this would would progress to be a global situation and as soon as it became apparent to us you know that this was becoming a risk more globally you know we were we were really quick off the mark to start to leasing guidelines to our doctors so clinical case definitions information on what to look for as well as what to do if you have a case in terms of quarantine etc this being a lot of if it put into place at our ports of entry. tambour international airport in johannesburg is also one of the more the bigger have is in africa with a lot of travelers from f

probably their response in africa will be different depending on how many cases will be coming from china with regards to corner a virus. well i've been speaking to cheryl cohen who is from the national institute for communicable diseases in shower factor care and she says the continent is perhaps more prepared for corona virus than one would imagine because it's already dealt with outbreaks of other diseases before. so this it became apparent to us you know that this was becoming a risk more globally you know we were we were really quick off the mark to start releasing guidelines to our doctors a clinical case definitions information on what to look for as well as what to do if you have a case in terms of current teen it's a trend certainly there's a very high level of awareness within the public health community and within the party community throughout africa and you know everyone all or all of our colleagues in the different african countries all really very engaged in preparedness activities i think there has a lot been put in place on the continent partly in response to which was a big epidemic for us in africa and also as part of preparedness activitie