Africa records a spike in Coronavirus cases as they reach 44

Coronavirus new infections are steadily increasing in Africa as Togo becomes the ninth country to confirm a case.

By Saturday morning, there were 102,239 confirmed cases in the world, 3497 deaths and 57624 recovered cases. African cases are gradually increasing as 44 people were confirmed to be infected, the cases spike was reported in Egypt where 14 new cases reported on Friday.

On Friday Togo reported a case of a woman who visited Europe joining South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco,Egypt and Algeria as infected countries in the continent.

 

Countries with Confirmed Cases	Confirmed Cases	Recovered Cased
Algeria	17
Egypt	15	1
Senegal	4
Morocco	2
Cameroon	2
Nigeria	1
Tunisia	1
South Africa	1
Togo	1

All African are in the West and East with only South Africa in the South. All these cases are from tourists who had been to Europe, especially from Italy which is the four affected with 4636 confirmed cases.

According to Who Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference on Thursday, WHO is very concerned about poor countries.

“Although we continue to see the majority of cases in handful of countries, we’re deeply concerned about the increasing number of countries reporting cases, especially those with weaker health systems. However, this epidemic is a threat for every country, rich and poor, and as we have said before, even the high income countries should expect surprises. The solution is aggressive preparedness.

We’re concerned that some countries have either not taken this seriously enough, or have decided there is nothing they can do. We’re concerned that in some countries the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face.”

Watch the whole Press Conference here:

Courtesy of https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/