The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa exceeds 1,506,185 as of Sunday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
The agency released in a statement that the death toll due to illnesses related to COVID-19 in Africa was 36,614 as of Sunday.
Also 1,243,259 people have recovered from the virus so far, the agency stated.
The Africa CDC said that the most COVID-19 affected African countries include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia and Nigeria respectively.
South Africa currently has the most COVID-19 cases, at 679,716, followed by Morocco with 131,228 confirmed cases. The highest number of deaths was recorded in South Africa also.
Egypt comes third, as it records 103,575 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a death toll of 5,970, the agency stated.
The continent’s total COVID-19 cases represent about 4.4 per cent of the global tally, according to the Africa CDC. Also some African countries are reporting COVID-19 related fatality rates higher than the global case fatality rate of three percent, it said.
These African countries include Chad, Liberia, Niger, Egypt, Mali, Angola, Algeria and Sudan.Although the number of COVID-19 cases across the African continent keeps rising, the adverse impacts of the pandemic are affecting the continent across various sectors, mostly the healthcare and economic sectors.
