Belinda Louise Herring

TL;DR: A group convened and led by the Virus Evolution Working Group of the World Health Organization reports on its deliberations and announces a naming scheme that will enable clear communication about SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the genomic epidemiology using a dataset of 8746 genomes from 33 African countries and two overseas territories and show that the epidemics in most countries were initiated by importations predominantly from Europe, which diminished following the early introduction of international travel restrictions.

TL;DR: This review extensively searched for studies that compared RT-PCR with serological tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and extracted the data from the various selected studies thatCompared the different tests and summarised the available evidence to determine which test is more appropriate especially in Africa.

TL;DR: This paper describes the first WHO RSV EQA for the molecular detection of RSV, and describes the methodology used to evaluate and standardize RSV molecular tests used by participating countries.