A total of 644,205 cases of coronavirus also known as COVID-19 have befell Africa with 14,044 deaths, reports ITREALMS.
This is coming as Nigeria is among top-five African countries with 73 per cent of all cases.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) made this disclosure to NaijaAgroNet on Thursday during a weekly press briefing on COVID-19.
Dr John Nkengasong, Director, Africa CDC made this known in his remarks to the media briefing said that in Africa, 54 Member States have reported 644,205 cases and 14,044 deaths.
This, he said, gives “a case fatality rate of2.2 per cent,”
In addition, he said, that there have been 334,547 recoveries.
In the past week, he also said, there was a 23 per cent increase in cases, with 119,546 new cases reported, an average of 17,078 new cases reported per day.
“Average daily new cases for previous week was 14,975,” Nkengasong said.
The top five countries accounting for 73 per cent of all cases in Africa includes South Africa: 311,049 (48 per cent), Egypt: 83,930 (13 per cent), Nigeria: 34,259 (5 per cent), Ghana 25,430 (4 per cent) and Algeria: 20,216 (3 per cent).
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