Confirmed coronavirus cases across Africa exceed 508 000 after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10 000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot.
The continent-wide total is over 508,000, according to figures released Wednesday by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10 000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot.
Already Covid-19 has killed more people in Africa - 11 955 - than Ebola did in its deadliest outbreak from 2014 to 2016 in West Africa, the WHO said Wednesday. Africa’s health systems are the most poorly funded and thinly staffed in the world, and already more than 2,000 health workers have been infected by the virus, according to the WHO.
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