KEVIN MARSH, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford MOSES ALOBO, Programme Manager for Grand Challenges Africa, African Academy of Sciences AS the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing load of infectious and non-infectious diseases often led to it being talked about in apocalyptic terms. However, it has not turned out quite that way. On September 29th, the world passed the one million reported deaths mark (the true figure will…