PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (72): Africa reporting, UK lockdown impact, Israel vaccine, WHO

COVID-19 — United Kingdom
Abstract
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Objective
To directly measure the fatal impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in an urban African population.
Design
Prospective systematic postmortem surveillance study.
Setting
Zambia’s largest tertiary care referral hospital.
Participants
Deceased people of all ages at the University Teaching Hospital morgue in Lusaka, Zambia, enrolled within 48 hours of death.
Main outcome measure
Postmortem nasopharyngeal swabs were tested via reverse