Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 2.5m – Africa CDC

9Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Friday the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the continent has reached 2,597,090.

The agency said in a statement that the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic stood at 61,432 while a total of 2,177,981 people infected with the virus had recovered across the continent.

The most affected African countries in terms of confirmed cases were South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia.

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South Africa currently has 968,563 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Morocco comes next with 425,864 confirmed COVID-19 cases, followed by Egypt with 128,993 and Tunisia with 126,752 confirmed cases.

Nigeria has 81,963 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

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