Africa has now recorded over 220,000 cases of Covid-19 across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against its spread.
The latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa details the records and breakdown periods when African countries confirm cases.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho. Below is a full list complied by NetbuzzAfrica.com.
Major African stats: June 13 at 8:30 GMT:
- Confirmed cases = 225,126
- Number of deaths = 6,051
- Recoveries = 102,912
- Active cases = 116,163
Countries in alphabetical order
- Algeria – 10,698
- Angola – 130
- Benin – 388
- Botswana – 48
- Burkina Faso – 892
- Burundi – 85
- Cameroon – 8,681
- Cape Verde – 697
- Central African Republic – 2,044
- Chad – 848
- Comoros – 163
- Congo-Brazzaville – 728
- DR Congo – 4,637
- Djibouti – 4,441
- Egypt – 41,303
- Equatorial Guinea – 1,306
- Eritrea – 41
- Eswatini – 472
- Ethiopia – 2,915
- Gabon – 3,463
- (The) Gambia – 28
- Ghana – 11,118
- Guinea – 4,426
- Guinea-Bissau – 1,460
- Ivory Coast – 4,684
- Kenya – 3,305
- Lesotho – 4
- Liberia – 421
- Libya – 409
- Madagascar – 1,240
- Malawi – 481
- Mali – 1,752
- Mauritania – 1,572
- Mauritius – 337
- Morocco – 8,610
- Mozambique – 509
- Namibia – 31
- Niger – 978
- Nigeria- 15,181
- Rwanda – 510
- Sao Tome and Principe – 650
- Senegal – 4,851
- Seychelles – 11
- Sierra Leone – 1,103
- Somalia – 2,513
- South Africa – 61,927
- South Sudan – 1,670
- Sudan – 6,879
- Tanzania – 509
- Togo – 525
- Tunisia – 1,093
- Uganda – 686
- Zambia – 1,321
- Zimbabwe – 343
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