COVID-19 Deaths Rise To 1, 200 In Africa – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa says the number of COVID-19 deaths in the WHO African Region has increased to 1, 200.
The UN’s health agency gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Friday.
The WHO African Region COVID-19 dashboard showed that in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa suffered the most severe outbreak, while Cameroon and Ghana had 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 had 3, 953 cases and 75 deaths followed by Algeria with 3, 007 cases and 407 deaths, while Cameroon had 1,401 confirmed cases with 49 deaths.
According to the dashboard, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Mauritania and The Gambia are countries with the lowest confirmed cases in the region.
It showed that South Sudan had the lowest confirmed cases of four reported with zero death.
Mauritania, the dashboard showed, was second country with the lowest confirmed cases with seven reported cases and one death.
Sao Tome and Principe, the third country with the lowest cases, had recorded eight confirmed cases with zero death.
Also, the dashboard showed that Nigeria was number six among the countries with the highest cases with 981 confirmed cases and 31 deaths.
In a related development, the agency in “COVID-19 for WHO Africa Region External Situation Report 8” posted on its twitter handle said the COVID-19 pandemic had continued to spread in the WHO African Region.
