The World Health Organization Africa regional head warns that a spike likely to result in the wake of improved and increased testing.
Whiles the figures remain very low in a number of countries, quite a sizeable number has passed the 100 mark with only a handful in the 1000+ bracket – South Africa, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco,Cameroon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Djibouti and Nigeria.
South Africa one of Africa’s most impacted country has been praised by some analysts for their dedication to mass and intensive testing which an African Union Centers for Disease Control, CDC, official has asked that all countries need to scale up if the magnitude of infection is to be ascertained.
The new entrants between April 22 and May 8 were: Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Benin and Uganda.
All figures valid as of May 8 at 07:00 GMT
Major African stats: May 8 at 6:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 54,083
Number of deaths = 2,073
Recoveries = 18,412
Infected countries = 53
Virus-free countries = 1 (Lesotho)
North Africa
Algeria – 5,182
Egypt – 7,981
Morocco – 5,548
Tunisia – 998
West Africa
Burkina Faso – 736
Ghana – 3,091
Guinea – 1,927
Ivory Coast – 1,571
Mali – 650
Niger – 781
Nigeria- 3,526
Senegal – 1,492
Liberia – 189
Sierra Leone – 231
Togo – 135
Guinea-Bissau – 564
Cape Verde – 218
Benin – 140
Central Africa
Cameroon – 2,267
DR Congo – 897
Congo Republic – 274
Gabon – 504
Equatorial Guinea – 439
Sao Tome and Principe – 187
Chad – 253
East Africa
Djibouti – 1,133
Kenya – 607
Mauritius – 332
Rwanda – 271
Tanzania – 480
Somalia – 928
Ethiopia – 191
Sudan – 930
Uganda – 101
Southern Africa
South Africa – 8,232
Madagascar – 193
Zambia – 153
Eswatini – 153
Virus-free = Lesotho
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