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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"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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""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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"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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