Pramita Chowdhury¹, Arunima Bhattacharya², Sohini Bose³ and Arup Kumar Mitra⁴*

¹Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

*Corresponding Author: Arup Kumar Mitra, Department of Microbiology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Received: December 10, 2021; Published: January 31, 2022

Abstract

The entire globe even with organized public health system is suffering from COVID-19 pandemic due to the Increasing rate of transmissibility and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2. In Africa, where the pandemic is expanding, there are major loopholes in financial resources, knowledge, health-care infrastructure, protective equipment, response capacity etc. Apart from this, Africa is torn by hunger, others disease outbreaks like Ebola, AIDS, TB which weaken this continent to fight against COVID-19. Here we summarized (a) the current scenario of COVID-19 outbreak in 11 African countries (b) the state of public health care infrastructure that might shape the devastating effect of pandemic crisis (c) the mode of heterogeneity in vaccine distribution policy in 11 African countries and the impact of vaccination to manage the pandemic (d) the improved strategies of the roll-model African country to deal with the rampant COVID-19. We highlighted that many high-income country like South Africa, Nigeria etc. were unable to deal with the outbreak due to lack of planning, useful policies, effective strategies, but in spite of being that a number of low-income African countries like Rwanda, Seychelles etc. have taken action swiftly by activating necessary policies, financial tools, effective strategies of vaccination to combat the disease. Variations in epidemiology, socio-economic factors in Africa shape the pandemic in a dynamic way and therefore, the findings of this review unpack broad lessons relating to Africa’s capacity, success story, and strategy to contain the pandemic that should be considered as a part of remarkable framework in COVID-19 management.

Keywords:SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 Vaccine; COVID-19; Africa; COVAX

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Citation

Citation: Arup Kumar Mitra., et al. “A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak, Heterogeneous Vaccine Dissemination and Effectiveness of Public Health Strategies in African Countries". Acta Scientific Microbiology 5.2 (2022): 104-115.

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