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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, having taken thelives of over 6 million individuals. Accordingly, this pandemic has caused ashift in conversations surrounding the burden of diseases worldwide, welcominginsights from multidisciplinary fields including digital health and artificialintelligence. Africa faces a heavy disease burden that exacerbates the currentCOVID-19 pandemic and limits the scope of public health preparedness, response,containment, and case management. Herein, we examined the potential impact oftransformative digital health technologies in mitigating the global healthcrisis with reference to African countries. Furthermore, we proposedrecommendations for scaling up digital health technologies and artificialintelligence-based platforms to tackle the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 andenable equitable vaccine access. Challenges related to the pandemic arenumerous. Rapid response and management strategies - that is, contract tracing,case surveillance, diagnostic testing intensity, and most recently vaccinedistribution mapping - can overwhelm the health care delivery system that isfragile. Although challenges are vast, digital health technologies can play anessential role in achieving sustainable resilient recovery and building backbetter. It is plausible that African nations are better equipped to rapidlyidentify, diagnose, and manage infected individuals for COVID-19, otherdiseases, future outbreaks, and pandemics.

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Examining the Implementation of Digital Health to Strengthen the  COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Recovery and Scale up Equitable Vaccine Access  in African Countries