Africa now surpasses 3m in COVID-19 cases with South Africa leading
Africa’s confirmed cases of people infected with coronavirus have reached 3,021,769.
This was made known on Sunday by the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
African countries affected most in terms of the number of positive cases include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, and Ethiopia.
At the moment South Africa leads with over 1.2m confirmed cases and 32,824 death recorded.
The death toll related to the pandemic stood at 72,121, the continental disease control and prevention agency’s Africa COVID-19 dashboard reported.
However, a total of 2,450,492 people infected with coronavirus have recovered across the continent as of Sunday morning.
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