“…According to WHO, several travel-related cases have already befallen Greece, Germany, France, Philippines, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Egypt, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, South Korea, Algeria, Austria, China, and the United States (WHO 2019 ). To date, the major plague of MERS-CoV, after Saudi Arabia, happened in South Korea from May through July of 2015, with 186 stated cases and 39 deaths to make a 21% case fatality rate (Altamimi et al 2020 ). It will, therefore, be instructive, for Africa to brace up to the challenge of a future possibility of a MERS-CoV outbreak.…”