Young Man Wisdom

As of August 18th, the total numbers of COVID-19 cases in Sudan reached 12,582 (28 cases per 100,000 population) and with a death rate of 6.5% (812). If you look at the number of the daily positive cases and the positivity rate you will think that Sudan is driving the virus under control as you can see both indicators are trending down. But as we said previously, Sudan is not testing enough. You will notice from the second graph that the rate of daily testing is not stable and ranges from 1000 to less than 200 tests per day. For Sudan to truly be able to know the real size of infection rate, Sudan needs to do more than testing suspect cases. And to add insult to injury, due to the political instability, Sudan had many protests and crowd gatherings, which without doubt accelerated the spread of the virus. Furthermore, the government started to relax some measures that helped, to some extent, in confiding the virus to the state of Khartoum. Recently the government allowed bus travel line...

Since the being of the Pandemic, The WHO could not have stressed the importance of Testing as the core strategy to fight the spread of the disease. “We have a simple message for all countries, test, test, test,” Said the WHO Director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. But why testing is important?   Testing is important for diagnosis so treatment can begin, also for isolating the infected persons to stop the spread of the disease and to do contact tracing and isolate exposed persons. The objective from Lockdown is/was to control the spread so hospitals have time to deal with the influx of patients while at the same time health authorities can have the time to invest in building testing capacity and contact tracing and isolation facilities. As no one knows exactly the number of people who are infected, testing plays a crucial part in providing a window on how the virus is spreading and where. This information is vital to the response, otherwise, you will be acting blindly and r...