‘We Can Get It Done Here’: Africa’s Tech Scene Tackles COVID-19
Fidel Mukatia , an electrical engineering student from Kenyatta University, stands with a group of students who made a ventilator, at the university’s facility in Nairobi on May 8, 2020, to mitigate the shortage experienced in the country and fight against COVID-19 coronavirus. SIMON MAINA / AFP.
“It’s very important that we can show Kenyans that we can do this here and we don’t need to rely on importation. We have got the innovative know-how and the means to get this done here,” he told AFP. In Benin, the start-up Blolab — a digital fabrication laboratory – has also been printing 3D face shields.Developers in Kenya’s thriving tech scene are among several on the continent working on contact tracing apps.
Most African countries have only a handful of the machines and 10 have none at all, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. A group of Rwandan biomedical scientists at the Integrated Polytechnic Regional College in Kigali have also been testing a locally made prototype ventilator.
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