Accelerating genomics-based surveillance for COVID-19 response in Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa W21K19, Ethiopia.
• ² South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁴ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
• ⁵ African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.