Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa exceed 1.27 million

09/05/2020 Ethiopia, Health



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A healthcare worker dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a nasopharyngeal swab sample from a resident during a Covid-19 test drive at Olympic Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Halfway through Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyattas To term, his promise to transform the economy through manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare and low-cost housing has been slow to show results, and the coronavirus pandemic is now it could reduce that to little more than an electoral promise. Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt / Bloomberg via Getty Images
A healthcare worker dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a nasopharyngeal swab sample from a resident during a Covid-19 test drive at Olympic Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Halfway through Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyattas To term, his promise to transform the economy through manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare and low-cost housing has been slow to show results, and the coronavirus pandemic is now it could reduce that to little more than an electoral promise. Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt / Bloomberg via Getty Images

The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) revealed on Friday that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent reached 1,275,815.

The CDC Africa, the specialized health care agency of the African Union Commission (AU), in a statement released on Friday, said the death toll from the ongoing pandemic also rose to 30,596. The number of COVID-19 recoveries also reached 1,015,865 as of Friday afternoon.

Total COVID-19 cases in Africa accounts for 5 percent of all reported cases globally, it said.

Africa’s CDC also revealed that nine African countries account for 81 percent of new COVID-19 cases reported during the past week, including South Africa with 27 percent, Ethiopia with 17 percent, Morocco with 16 percent, Libya with 5 percent, Algeria at 4 percent, Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia and Egypt at 3 percent each.

In terms of reporting the highest cumulative incidence of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in Africa, South Africa ranked first at 1,079, Cape Verde second at 647, and Djibouti at 539, according to the Africa CDC.

According to the Africa CDC, some eleven countries are reporting fatality rates above the global fatality rate of 3.4 percent, including Chad reporting fatality rates of 8 percent and Sudan reporting fatality rates of 6 percent.

Africa’s CDC also revealed that amid the rapid spread of the virus across the continent, African countries have so far conducted more than 11.8 million COVID-19 tests, with a positivity rate of 10.7 per hundred.

South Africa, the African country hardest hit by COVID-19, has so far reported 633,015 cases and 14,563 deaths as of Friday, it was noted. Egypt, which is the second most affected country by COVID-19 in Africa, has also reported 99,425 positive cases and 5,479 deaths related to COVID-19, according to the CDC of Africa.

On Thursday, Ethiopia surpassed Nigeria as the fourth African nation most affected by COVID-19 with 804 new cases, ultimately bringing the total number of cases to 55,213, the country’s Health Ministry said.

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