Africa: Update Covid-19 30 July 2020

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Africa: Update Covid-19 30 July 2020

[WHO] Thirty-one (31) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 4086 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four (1994). To date, one thousand and eighty-five (1085) patients have recovered and been discharged, including forty-nine (49) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is nine hundred and four (904) and five (5) deaths.

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