The WHO declared the novel COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented, prior experiences with diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome, severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola shaped many countries' preparedness and response strategies. Although lessons learnt from outbreak responses have been documented from a variety of sources, news media play a special role through their dissemination of news to the general public. This study investigated news media to explore how lessons learnt from the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-2016 informed the COVID-19 responses in several African countries.
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