AU-backed app seeks to speed up border reopenings
Most African nations have either kept their borders closed since the pandemic began to spread or reopened with tight restrictions
05 September 2020 - 08:36
Two major African public bodies are promoting a new technology that could connect the continent’s Covid-19 testing centres and ease a reopening of travel across the region.
The African Union (AU) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention are encouraging member states to integrate the mobile-based PanaBIOS platform that would allow results from facilities across the continent to be centralised. So far, only Ghana is using the service...
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