Covid-19 : Stakeholders Strive To Limit Spread

It is about 30 minutes past 2 p.m. on Tuesday June 8, 2021 when some two men all covered with white protective clothing, latex gloves, protective masks, and googles near the handball court of the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex. It is immediately after the first segment of the first match of the ongoing Senior Women’s Handball African Cup of Nations pitting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. The men are seen carrying spray pumps and take time to spray the surroundings of the court before the players could get in for the second segment. This, it should be said, is just one of the numerous mechanisms put in place by stakeholders to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic during this prestigious competition hosted in Cameroon’s capital city, Yaounde. 
On the same June 8, 2021, a man is heard shouting, “The wearing of facemask is not optional but obligatory”. Immediately he says so, people are spotted putting on their facemasks while security officers talk the few who proved recalcitrant to follow suit. Not far from where the member of the security asked the few invited for the event to wear their facemasks, is a particular area reserved for those who are part of the sanitary bubble instituted by the Confederation of African Handball (CAHB) to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The sanitary bubble according to CAHB, implies a delimited space where a group of people tested negative earlier, agrees to be (entirely) enclosed...