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Coronavirus statistics for Africa, 4k cases in 42 countries

Coronavirus statistics for Africa shows that over 4000 cases have been reported in 42 countries.

What is the COVID-19 Update for Africa Region?

The WHO has indicated that the African Region has 4,291 confirmed cases. In all WHO 42 countries out of the 54 countries in Africa have recorded cases.

This represents 78% of countries on the continent.

Coronavirus statistics for Africa also indicate that only six (6) countries have not reported any cases. These rare safe havens include South Sudan, Burundi, Sao Tome, and Principe, Malawi, Lesotho, and Comoros.

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What are the top 20 COVID-19 affected countries in Africa?

The top 20 COVID-19 affected countries in Africa are as follows

Africa’s health systems have remained fragile even in the pre-COVID-19 era and many African heads of states and politicians have sought medical attention outside in the UK, US, and Asia.

Coronavirus statistics for Africa are alarming given the poor health systems. For the first time, African leaders have remained at home to deal with the virus irrespective of who has contracted it.

There is the need to improve on health care delivery from logistics and training aimed at continuous improvements in health care systems, competencies, skills, and capabilities of health centres and health professionals going forward.

What is the World COVID-19 statistics?

According to world meters at the time of this publication, 950,425 Coronavirus Cases have been recorded with deaths tolls reaching 48,276 whiles 202,627 have recovered.

This is 49575 shy of the 1 million mark. Many fear the cases may exceed 1 million in the next 14 days if measures put in place are not intensified across the globe. Coronavirus statistics for Africa is also expected to rise is the needed behaviourial changes, unscientific perspective about the virus does not change.

Source: NewsGhana24