id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311413-uiwjrvru Chanda-Kapata, Pascalina COVID-19 and malaria: A symptom screening challenge for malaria endemic countries 2020-04-27 .txt text/plain 1734 94 52 COVID-19 currently imposes an additional burden to the already overstretched, resource strapped health services which are grappling to bring under control the high burden of existing infectious and non-infectious diseases, including TB, HIV, and malaria. Health care workers and community members alike are faced with an important challenge of quickly identifying symptoms and taking appropriate steps for laboratory investigation in line with the case definition based on surveillance or clinical characterisation (WHO, 2020a) . Key steps to identifying a COVID-19 case ultimately involves symptomatic or high risk patients presenting to health providers with complaints of any of the following symptoms or travel history: fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, headache and others of acute onset or history of travel to affected areas or contact with an infected person. Thus, current screening approaches for COVID-19 are likely to miss approximately 50% of the infected cases even in countries with good health systems and available diagnostic capacities (Gostic et al., 2020) . ./cache/cord-311413-uiwjrvru.txt ./txt/cord-311413-uiwjrvru.txt