COVID-19 cases in Africa rise to over 16,800 – WHO

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COVID-19 cases in Africa rise to over 16,800 – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa has risen to over 16,800.

The UN’s health agency gave the update on its official Twitter account @WHOAFRO on Thursday.

“Number of COVID-19 cases on the African continent rise to over 16, 800, with 3, 271 recoveries and 896 deaths.’’

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The News Agency of Nigeria, however (NAN), reports that the WHO figures may have been compiled on Wednesday and not latest from various countries on the continent as on Thursday.

The breakdown on the WHO African Region COVID-19 dashboard showed that South Africa, Algeria and Cameroon had continued to top the list of countries with the highest reported cases.

South Africa has 2,506 cases and 34 deaths followed by Algeria with 2,160 cases and 336 deaths, while Cameroon has 855 confirmed cases with 17 deaths.

According to WHO, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Burundi and Mauritania remain countries with lowest confirmed cases in the region.

South Sudan and Sao Tome and Principe were the lowest confirmed cases, which had four cases each with zero death.

Burundi was the second country with the lowest confirmed cases with five reported cases and zero death.

Mauritania in the third category with the lowest cases as the country had recorded seven confirmed cases with one death.

The global body confirmed that COVID-19 cases had risen to 373 confirmed cases with 11 deaths in Nigeria.

However, giving an update on Thursday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC through its twitter handle confirmed that a total of 442 people have been confirmed to have COVID-19 in Nigeria, 152 patients have been discharged and 13 deaths recorded.

In the recent days, the daily confirmed toll in Nigeria is in the region of thirties indicating a rise in the daily toll.

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