Despite forecasts that cases would peak in June, schools and universities were suddenly told to reopen this week, prompting teachers and parents to warn that safety preparedness was nowhere near ready.
"We are seeing a particularly significant progression of the epidemic -- it's extremely serious," Eugene Sobngwi, vice chairman of the health ministry's scientific council, told state television on May 24.Rebutting such worries, Health Minister Manaouda Malachie on Monday said the case figures"should not be a cause for alarm... so far the government has been in control of the situation".
No lockdown has ever been imposed in Cameroon, and restaurants, bars and nightclubs were only forced to close after 6pm. Despite the late response, the impact of those measures was"immediate -- Cameroonians understood there was a major problem," said Professor Yap Boum II, an epidemiologist and head of a Doctors Without Borders research centre in Yaounde.
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