There are now more than over 6,700 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the virus.

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From the latest data by the Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as follow see below.

We shall keep updating this list

Major stats as at April 2
Confirmed cases = 6,737
Number of deaths = 251
Recoveries = 525
Infected countries = 50
Virus-free countries = 4

North Africa

• Algeria – 847
• Egypt – 779
• Libya – 10
• Morocco – 638
• Tunisia – 394
• Virus-free = None

West Africa

• Benin – 13
• Burkina Faso – 282
• Cape Verde – 6
• The Gambia – 4
• Ghana – 195
• Guinea – 30
• Guinea-Bissau – 9
• Ivory Coast – 190
• Liberia – 6
• Mauritania – 6
• Mali – 31
• Nigeria- 184
• Niger – 74
• Senegal – 190
• Sierra Leone – 2
• Togo – 36
• Virus-free = Zero

Central Africa

• Cameroon – 233
• Central African Republic – 6
• Chad – 7
• Congo-Brazzaville – 22
• DR Congo – 123
• Equatorial Guinea – 15
• Gabon – 18
• Virus-free = Sao Tome and Principe

Southern Africa

• Angola – 8
• Botswana – 4
• Eswatini – 9
• Madagascar – 57
• Malawi – 3
• Mozambique – 10
• Namibia – 14
• South Africa – 1,380
• Zambia – 36
• Zimbabwe – 8
• Virus-free = Comoros, Lesotho

East Africa / Horn of Africa

• Burundi – 2
• Djibouti – 33
• Eritrea – 18
• Ethiopia – 29
• Kenya – 81
• Mauritius – 161
• Rwanda – 82
• Seychelles – 10
• Somalia – 5
• Sudan – 7
• Tanzania – 20
• Uganda – 44
• Virus-free = South Sudan