now let's go have a quick chats with dr mary stefano the regional office for africa in brazzaville republic of congo dr mary many thanks for your time now africa has recorded very few cases by the international community is awarded why. good so as you know where the outbreak started in china and it does spread to different countries and of course africa is also at weeks because of the volume of travelers between africa and order affected areas so the like you would that would be importation of cases into a very high and they might also be worried because. of the for ideality of the systems enough. and also the population we have in africa but just to assure the world that we are enhancing our level of preparedness in africa so we can take the test is and also respond appropriately ok now of 14 african countries are not have tests in the equipment for cohen our virus that obviously is a challenge how prepared are we. oh ok so you are right so we have right now $34.00 countries that have the capacity to test. and knowing many countries. helping them to prepare and their capacity to confirm $1