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Great news! Senegal joins our Winners circle!
Less than 20 cases per day.
Last two days 8 cases and 14 cases.
Congratulations!
Keep going to zero!
How did they do it?
https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries
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Less than 20 cases per day.
Last two days 8 cases and 14 cases.
Congratulations!
Keep going to zero!
How did they do it?
https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries
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"Senegal's quiet COVID success: Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks"
"Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists are racing to develop a cutting-edge, low-cost ventilator."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/09/06/covid-19-why-senegal-outpacing-us-tackling-pandemic/5659696002/
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"Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists are racing to develop a cutting-edge, low-cost ventilator."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/09/06/covid-19-why-senegal-outpacing-us-tackling-pandemic/5659696002/
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"This isn't the pandemic response in South Korea, New Zealand..
It's Senegal, a west African country with a fragile health care system, a scarcity of hospital beds and about seven doctors for every 100,000 people."
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It's Senegal, a west African country with a fragile health care system, a scarcity of hospital beds and about seven doctors for every 100,000 people."
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"And yet Senegal, with a population of 16 million, has tackled COVID-19 aggressively and, so far, effectively."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54388340
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54388340
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""You see Senegal moving out on all fronts: following science, acting quickly, working the communication side of the equation, and then thinking about innovation," said Judd Devermont, director of a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank....
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..Senegal deserves "to be in the pantheon of countries that have ... responded well to this crisis, even given its low resource base,"
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"Senegal snagged the No. 2 slot in a recent analysis looking at how 36 countries have handled the pandemic. Senegal received strong marks for "a high degree of preparedness and a reliance on facts and science,""
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"When the country had its first positive case .. President Macky Sall immediately imposed a curfew and
[note!] restricted travel between Senegal’s 14 regions."
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[note!] restricted travel between Senegal’s 14 regions."
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"The country ramped up testing capacity quickly, creating mobile labs that can return results within 24 hours – or as quickly as two hours in some cases, Bousso said."
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"Sall’s government also made a dramatic promise: Every person who tested positive would have a treatment bed, whether they had symptoms or not. That kept patients away from home, where they might transmit the virus to family members."
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"“We saw at the beginning that if you do that, we can very rapidly stop the transmission,” Bousso said."
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