COVID-19: Nearly a million infected in Africa
on February 14, about 996,018 people across the continent have been infected and over 21,000 have died, data from the African Center for Disease Control has revealed.The latest statistics indicate no sign of the disease slowing down in the continent of over a billion people.
Egypt is in second place over 95,000 confirmed infections while Nigeria is third with more than 45, 000 cases. On April 28, the Nigerian government announced its target of testing at least two million people within the next three months. Egypt has tested about 135,000 of its over 100 million population while Ghana has screened more than 405,000 of its 31 million people, the highest for a West African nation.Cameroon, central Africa’s worst-affected country with over 17,000 cases, has tested less than one per cent of its population of 25 million.
So far, about 10 per cent of all cases globally are among health workers, though there is a wide range between individual countries.
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