{"id":38774,"date":"2021-03-10T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=38774"},"modified":"2021-03-10T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:49:48","slug":"covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Africa records more cases, deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday, the 10th of March 2021, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa CDC also confirmed that the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 106,402, while 3,564,351 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease.<\/p>\n<p>It said the most affected countries in terms of the number of confirmed positive cases include South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, the agency noted.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has lost 50,906 lives to the disease, the most among African countries, according to the Africa CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Africa CDC Director John Nkengasong recently said that African countries were facing several challenges as they were in bad need of vaccines, emphasising the need to strictly adhere to public health precautionary measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday, the 10th of March 2021, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) reports. The Africa CDC also confirmed that the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 106,402, while 3,564,351 patients across the continent have recovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1871,1570,2140,1585,254],"class_list":["post-38774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-covid-19-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Africa records more cases, deaths - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday, the 10th of March 2021, according to the Africa Centers ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: Africa records more cases, deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday, the 10th of March 2021, according to the Africa Centers ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T18:02:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6049069745683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19: Africa records more cases, deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-10T18:02:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6049069745683.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Covid-19\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-africa-records-more-cases-deaths\",\"name\":\"COVID-19: Africa records more cases, deaths - 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