The new Coronavirus infections number in Africa has exceeded 10 thousand, so far, while the number of deaths reached several hundreds, according to African regional and local sources to Sky News Arabia.
The Africa Center for Prevention and Control of Diseases said in its latest report, Tuesday, that there are more than 10 thousand cases of "COVID-19" disease in the black continent today.
According to recent reports, the new coronavirus has spread to almost every country in the continent. To be precise, the virus infection has appeared, till this moment, in 52 out of 54 African countries.
Although South Africa comes in the forefront of the countries most affected by the virus in the continent, in terms of infections, with 1749 cases, including 13 deaths, the Arab countries are the most affected by the “COVID-19" epidemic, with total infections and deaths.
The Situation of Coronavirus in Arab countries
Algeria leads the African countries in terms of deaths, as the number rose to 205 deaths, while the number of infections reached 1972, as of Wednesday noon.
Morocco comes after Algeria in terms of infections, and recorded 1275 infections, while the number of deaths reached 93 cases.
As for Egypt, it is the third Africa in terms of injuries, after both South Africa and Algeria, and 1,560 infections were recorded, while it came again in terms of deaths, where 103 deaths were recorded.
It is worth noting that the only Arab African country that has not had any infection with the new Corona virus is the Comoros country, and it is besides Lesotho, São Tomé and Príncipe, the only African countries that have not had any infection with the deadly virus.
On the global level, nearly one million and a half persons are reported to be infected with the novel Corona virus, with a total deaths of approximately 87,700 cases.
The total number of the recovered cases is 319,160 worldwide, while more than 48,000 are in serious conditions.
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