Africa: Update Covid-19 11 August 2020

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Africa: Update Covid-19 11 August 2020

[WHO] 11 August 2020 -- Nineteen (19) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 5153 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to two thousand, one hundred and seventy-one (2171). To date, one thousand, four hundred and seventy-eight (1478) patients have recovered and been discharged, including eighty-six (86) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is six hundred and eighty-six (686) and seven (7) deaths.

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