Peg new policies on research to help flatten corona curve

This Monday, we celebrate both Idd-ul-Fitr and African Liberation Day. For the first time in decades, one issue - flattening the Covid-19 curve - pre-occupies 1.3 billion Africans.

To date, there have been 99,062 cases of people who have contracted the virus across Africa; 3,082 have died and 39,085 have recovered. Nine countries, mostly from Northern and Southern Africa led by Egypt, South Africa and Algeria, are the most affected. While still low, mass testing has tripled in the last month, with 1.2 million Africans having now been tested, with remarkable increases in countries like Nigeria.