Are Africa on the Right Track to Prevent COVID-19? Reflections from African Business Magazine's Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

African Business Magazine is one of market leaders in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. African Business was first published in January 1982. Its headquarters are in London. The monthly magazine covers business events, special reports which discuss specific sectors and industries across Africa. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in March 2020, the monthly magazine published 64 reports or articles related to the COVID-19 status in Africa continent. This study tries to retrieve from these reports published on the magazine since March 2022 to study local perspectives on the pandemic event. Africa government's responses to the spread of the COVID-19 and impacts to economy and public health retrieved from the mass medias will be compared with WHO's guidelines under different stages since outbreak of the pandemic to verify whether African's COVID-19 prevention performance can be trusted. This study would add African's viewpoints to prevent COVID-19 under the limits of fragile health system to the existed pandemic studies.