Seven weeks after the first case in Africa in COVID-19, a national of Italy in Algeria, it has spread to over 10,000 people across the region, causing 487 deaths. Three out of 54 countries – São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros and Lesotho – appear to stay virus-free.
“Case numbers are increasing exponentially in the African region,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Regional African Director of the World Health Organization (WHO). “It took 16 days to cross 100 cases from the first reported case in the area. It took another 10 days to cross 1000. Five days later there were 2,000 incidents and we were at 3,000 two days later.
Central Africa
Cases 950
Deaths 33
Recoveries 34
Burundi
3
0
0
Cameroon
650
9
17
Central African Republic
9
0
3
Chad
9
0
1
Congo
49
5
2
DRC
180
18
9
Equatorial Guinea
16
0
1
Gabon
30
1
1
Sao Tome & Principe
4
0
0
Eastern Africa
Cases 922
Deaths 18
Recoveries 54
Djibouti
121
0
18
Eritrea
31
0
0
Ethiopia
52
2
4
Kenya
172
6
7
Madagascar
88
0
7
Mauritius
244
7
7
Rwanda
105
0
4
Seychelles
11
0
0
Somalia
7
0
1
South Sudan
1
0
0
Sudan
14
2
3
Tanzania
24
1
3
Uganda
52
0
0
Northern Africa
Cases 4506
Deaths 365
Recoveries 444
Algeria
1423
173
90
Egypt
1322
85
259
Libya
18
1
0
Mauritania
6
1
2
Morocco
1141
83
88
Tunisia
596
22
5
Southern Africa
Cases 1864
Deaths 19
Recoveries 61
Angola
16
2
2
Botswana
6
1
0
Eswatini
10
0
3
Malawi
8
1
0
Mozambique
10
0
1
Namibia
16
0
3
South Africa
1749
13
45
Zambia
39
1
7
Zimbabwe
10
1
0
Western Africa
Cases 2010
Deaths 57
Recoveries 396
Benin
26
1
5
Burkina Faso
364
18
108
Cape Verde
7
1
1
Côte d’Ivoire
323
3
41
Gambia
4
1
2
Ghana
287
5
31
Guinea
128
0
5
Guinea-Bissau
18
0
2
Liberia
14
3
3
Mali
47
5
9
Niger
253
10
26
Nigeria
238
5
35
Senegal
237
2
105
Sierra Leone
6
0
0
Togo
58
3
23
Data Source: Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
