On this edition of Africa 54, U.S. based pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson works on developing a vaccine to stop Coronavirus; World Health Organization expected to decide whether to designate the Corona-virus outbreak, as a global health emergency; Local islamist group kills at least 30 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A54 Business: Farmers in Madagascar’s Itasy province are harvesting a specialist coffee enhanced by bat spit in what may be the first time such coffee has been commercially produced in Africa.