Africa: Latest Confirmed COVID-19 Cases for the Continent

22 April 2020

Cape Town — EDITORS' NOTE: This article was last updated on May 16, 2020

79,564 people across Africa have been infected with COVID-19, and 2,671 have died.

Figures released by nCoV, the COVID19 Africa website, show that 29,261 people have recovered.

South Africa has the most cases, 13,524, followed by Egypt at 11,719 cases. Morocco has 6,741 and Algeria 6,821, followed by Nigeria (5,450) and Ghana (5,638).

Go to African Arguments for the latest updated figures, with links to statistics and maps from the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University in the United States, and nCoV.

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