Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday reported that COVID-19 cases in Africa as at May 19 had risen to about 86,000.<\/p>\n
WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere over 86,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent \u2013 with more than 33,000 recoveries and 2,700 deaths,\u2019\u2019 it said.<\/p>\n
The figures showed that South Africa, Algeria and Nigeria had the highest reported cases in Africa.<\/p>\n
According to the report, South Africa had 16,433 cases and 286 deaths followed by Algeria with 7,201 cases and 555 deaths, while Nigeria had 6,175 confirmed cases and 191 deaths.<\/p>\n
It added that Ghana had 5, 735 reported cases and 29 deaths, while Cameroon recorded 3, 529 confirmed cases and 140 deaths.<\/p>\n
The report said that Lesotho, Comoros and Seychelles were countries cuurently with the lowest confirmed cases in the region.<\/p>\n
It said that Lesotho had only one confirmed cases with zero death; Comoros had 11 reported cases and one death, while Seychelles recorded 11 confirmed cases with no death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday reported that COVID-19 cases in Africa as at May 19 had risen to about 86,000. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO. \u201cThere over 86,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent \u2013 with more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":21212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1437],"tags":[1451,728],"class_list":["post-25293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-covid-19","tag-who"],"yoast_head":"\n