The Africa CDC says the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the continent surged to 1,084,687 from 1,073,788 as of Friday.
The centre, in its latest situation update issued on Friday, said the number of COVID-19 cases across the African continent has risen from 1,073,788 on Thursday to 1,084,687 as of Friday.
South Africa currently has the most COVID-19 cases at 572,865. The country also has the highest COVID-19 related deaths, with death toll currently standing at 11,270, according to the Africa CDC. Rounding up the top five COVID-19 infected African countries list is Algeria which has so far recorded 37, 631 COVID-19 cases out of which 1,328 resulted in the deaths.
Cape Verde comes third with 5,000 cases per one million people and Sao Tome and Principe comes fourth with 4,410 cases per one million people.The Africa CDC also said nine African countries are reporting case fatality rates comparable to or higher than the global case fatality rate of 3.7 per cent.
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