Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa's innovation landscape was largely led by the financial technology sector. Health technology start-ups on the other hand were just beginning to overcome the perception of Africa's health sector as fragile and unattractive to investors seeking to make profits.Investors are finally seeing that the opportunity the e-health sector poses is being realised by quality entrepreneurs and teams with innovative solutions and strong businesses behind them. Across the continent, several innovations are emerging in diagnostics, medical delivery services, and health insurance, with varying degrees of adoption and market traction.Dr Moeti, Director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa, noted that local solutions are being deployed to translate COVID-19 messaging into local languages. In addition, local innovations are finding opportunities for deployment in strengthening outbreak communication, addressing misinformation, contact tracing, tracking ventilators, boosting response capacities, among others.