The World Health
Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has said
the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa had risen to over 24,000
in the past 24 hours.
The UN’s health
agency gave the update on its official twitter account, @WHOAFRO on Wednesday.
“More than 24,000
COVID-19 cases have been reported on the African continent – with over 6,250
recoveries and 1,100 deaths,’’ it said.
The WHO African
Region COVID-19 dashboard showed that in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa
suffers the most severe outbreak, while Cameroon and Ghana have more than 2,000
confirmed cases.
The figures on the
dashboard showed that South Africa, Algeria and Cameroon had continued to top
the list of countries with the highest reported cases.
It showed that South
Africa has 3,465 cases and 58 deaths followed by Algeria with 2,811 cases and
392 deaths, while Cameroon has 1,163 confirmed cases with 43 deaths.
According to the
dashboard, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Mauritania and The Gambia are
countries with lowest confirmed cases in the region.
It showed that South
Sudan and Sao Tome and Principe had the lowest confirmed cases, with each
having four cases with zero death.
Mauritania, the
dashboard showed, was the second country with the lowest numbers with seven
reported cases and one death.
The Gambia, the
third country with the lowest cases, had recorded 10 confirmed cases with one
death.
Also, the dashboard
showed that Nigeria is number 9 among the countries with the highest cases with
541 confirmed cases and 19 deaths.
Giving an update,
the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced that another 117 new
cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing to 782 the
number of confirmed cases in the country.
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