Table 1.

PubMed/MEDLINE search strategy

Search#	Search terms
#1	(COVID-19 [Title/Abstract] OR corona [Title/Abstract] OR 2019-nCoV [Title/Abstract] OR “Coronavirus disease” [Title/Abstract] OR SARS-CoV-2 [Title/Abstract] OR “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” [Title/Abstract]
#2	Pandemic[Title/Abstract] OR outbreak [Title/Abstract] OR epidemic[Title/Abstract]
#3	#1 AND #2
#4	Isolation[Title/Abstract] OR quarantine[Title/Abstract] OR “Social distancing” [Title/Abstract] OR “physical distancing” [Title/Abstract] OR lockdown[Title/Abstract] OR “school closure” [Title/Abstract] OR “school dismissal” [Title/Abstract] OR “workplace closure” [Title/Abstract] OR teleworking[Title/Abstract] OR “mass gathering” [Title/Abstract] OR “public gathering” [Title/Abstract] OR “movement restriction”[Title/Abstract]
#5	Africa OR “sub-Saharan Africa” OR “Africa South of the Sahara”
#6	#3 AND #4 AND #5