By :- Ayo Obafemi
The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, admitted that Africa’s coronavirus statistics were far from “perfect”.
“We just lack the means,” he told AFP.
But Nkengasong dismissed claims that a high number of infections had slipped under the radar, pointing out that if that was the case, hospitals “would be flooded with people”.
Another school of thought has attributed the low numbers to various actions taken by African governments.
This means that as Europe and Asia battled the covid-19 in its initial stages, African governments took lessons and emulated the preventive measures taken by the affected states.
This may then have helped reduce chances of the spread of the disease.
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Coronavirus in 52 African countries, 13,600+ cases, 742 deaths, 2,358 recoveries
Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Globally
Cases1, 846,833 +162,000 New
Deaths 113,883 +11,747 New
Recovered 421,876 +46,377 New
SOURCE: JOHNS HOPKIN
Africa countries in alphabetical order and the numbers of Covid-19 cases
Algeria – 1,825
Angola – 19
Benin – 35
Botswana – 13
Burkina Faso – 484
Burundi – 5
Cameroon – 820
Cape Verde – 8
Central African Republic – 8
Chad – 11
Comoros – 0
Congo-Brazzaville – 60
DR Congo – 223
Djibouti – 187
Egypt – 1,939
Equatorial Guinea – 18
Eritrea – 34
Eswatini – 12
Ethiopia – 69
Gabon – 46
(The) Gambia – 9
Ghana – 408
Guinea – 250
Guinea-Bissau – 38
Ivory Coast – 533
Kenya – 191
Lesotho – 0
Liberia – 48
Libya – 25
Madagascar – 102
Malawi – 12
Mali – 87
Mauritania – 7
Mauritius – 319
Morocco – 1,545
Mozambique – 20
Namibia – 16
Niger – 491
Nigeria- 323
Rwanda – 120
Sao Tome and Principe – 4
Senegal – 278
Seychelles – 11
Sierra Leone – 10
Somalia – 21
South Africa – 2,028
South Sudan – 4
Sudan – 19
Tanzania – 32
Togo – 76
Tunisia – 685
Uganda – 53
Zambia – 40
Zimbabwe – 14
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