Since the arrival of COVID-19 on the continent on last year, there has been multi-layered concerns by experts and governments from fears of health systems being overwhelmed to the continent being muscled out of critical virus supplies.
One other piece of innovation that gained currency in Africa are the disinfection booths.
Their installation and use in different parts of Africa began to spread very rapidly be it at public or private facilities. Their main purpose as is largely advocated is as a preventive measure for persons who walked through them.
Sanitization is a preventive and strategic method to contain the spread of SARS-CoV2.
On 11 February 2020, WHO announced the name of the new disease from the virus of Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order known as the “COVID-19”. The virus is named corona (Latin name crown) due to the presence of the crown-like structure on its outer surface (Shereen et al. 2020). The symptoms of COVID-19 may include fever, coughing, shortness of breath, sure throat, runny nose, etc.
There are three different routes of the transmission of COVID-19 viruses from the contagious person to a healthy person. These are the direct route, indirect contact, and airborne transmission. The direct mode transmission implies the transfers of virus between infected and susceptible hosts via person-to-person contact. While the indirect mode of transmission indicates the transmission of the virus from the objects used by the infected person or the immediate environment of the infected individual. The airborne transmission of the virus occurs through the droplet spray formed during natural human exhalation flows.
One should address the community level spread of disease at individual scales before handling it on a social scale. Individual sanitization helps in reducing the mammoth spread of virus and prevents it from taking a colossal shape for the society as a whole. Crowd is made of individuals who are a part of a crowd, so it is incumbent on every individual to act for the benefit of the larger group.
One of the most effective method to prevent the transmission of the virus is by using the Covid-19 disinfection booth which is readily available for purchase and rental.