COVID-19: More than 95,000 cases confirmed in Africa
More than 95,000 cases of coronavirus confirmed across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
Data published on the 20th of May, 2020 by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa gives the breakdown as follows
Major African stats: May 20 at 7:00 GMT:
- Confirmed cases = 95,482
- Number of deaths = 3,000
- Recoveries = 38,120
- Active cases = 54,362
Countries in alphabetical order
- Algeria – 7,542
- Angola – 52
- Benin – 130
- Botswana – 29
- Burkina Faso – 809
- Burundi – 42
- Cameroon – 3,733
- Cape Verde – 349
- Central African Republic – 418
- Chad – 565
- Comoros – 34
- Congo-Brazzaville – 420
- DR Congo – 1,731
- Djibouti – 1,828
- Egypt – 14,229
- Equatorial Guinea – 890
- Eritrea – 39
- Eswatini – 217
- Ethiopia – 389
- Gabon – 1,567
- (The) Gambia – 24
- Ghana – 6,269
- Guinea – 2,863
- Guinea-Bissau – 1,089
- Ivory Coast – 2,231
- Kenya – 1,029
- Lesotho – 1
- Liberia – 238
- Libya – 69
- Madagascar – 371
- Malawi – 71
- Mali – 931
- Mauritania – 141
- Mauritius – 332
- Morocco – 7,133
- Mozambique – 156
- Namibia – 16
- Niger – 920
- Nigeria- 6,677
- Rwanda – 314
- Sao Tome and Principe – 251
- Senegal – 2,714
- Seychelles – 11
- Sierra Leone – 570
- Somalia – 1,573
- South Africa – 18,003
- South Sudan – 290
- Sudan – 3,138
- Tanzania – 509
- Togo – 340
- Tunisia – 1,045
- Uganda – 264
- Zambia – 832
- Zimbabwe – 48
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
