John Nkengasong

John Nkengasong is director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a specialized technical institution of the Africa Union. He previously served as Deputy Principal Director (acting) of the Center for Global Health, and as Chief of the International Laboratory Branch, Division of Global HIV and TB, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

by Tom Frieden, John Nkengasong

Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself