On Apr. 28, 2020, Illumina announced that the African Union Commission, on behalf of the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention, received a $1.4 million donation of their sequencing systems and related consumables intended to expand SARS-CoV-2 sequencing capabilities and capacity in ten African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.