COVID-19 HQ Africa Legal Disclaimer

The Mastercard Foundation Public Awareness Campaign COVID HQ Africa site is using the World Health Organization (hereinafter referred to as ‘the WHO’) data, with the consent of the WHO, as a primary and credible source in providing information on the Covid-19 pandemic updates.

The Covid-19 infection updates on the COVID HQ Africa site are updated daily based on the latest information received by the WHO. It is important for users to note that there is a time lag between data arriving from individual African countries to the WHO and consequently how the data will be availed and/or communicated to users. Further to the foregoing, that the tallies from countries may have undercounted deaths that have occurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic during this period due to limited testing facilities.

In order to receive services such as screening or country information from this site, users may be required to provide personal information. The personal information provided, including your name, e-mail address, phone number will be kept confidential and be used to notify you of information that we think may be of interest to you. Users’ personal information will be subject to Mastercard Foundation’s Privacy Policy. We take privacy seriously and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of users’ personal information and we will take all appropriate security measures to ensure that any personal information that is availed to us will be protected. Mastercard Foundation is a non-profit organization and will neither sell nor transfer users’ personal information to a third party for the purpose of facilitating third-party advertising.