Coronavirus Cases In Africa Going Up
13 April 2020

A worker checks the temperature of travellers at the border post with Kenya in Namanga, northern Tanzania, on March 16, 2020, on the day Tanzania confirmed the first case of the covid-19.
There are now more than over 14,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on Covid-19 in Africa the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
The whole of Africa has rising cases with only two countries holding out as of April 13.
Major African stats as of April 13 as of 5 am GMT:
- Confirmed cases = 14,497
- Number of deaths = 788
- Recoveries = 2,823
- Infected countries = 52
- Virus-free countries = 2 (Lesotho, Comoros)
Countries in alphabetical order
- Algeria – 1,914
- Angola – 19
- Benin – 35
- Botswana – 13
- Burkina Faso – 497
- Burundi – 5
- Cameroon – 820
- Cape Verde – 8
- Central African Republic – 8
- Chad – 19
- Comoros – 0
- Congo-Brazzaville – 70
- DR Congo – 234
- Djibouti – 214
- Egypt – 2,065
- Equatorial Guinea – 21
- Eritrea – 34
- Eswatini – 14
- Ethiopia – 71
- Gabon – 49
- (The) Gambia – 9
- Ghana – 566
- Guinea – 250
- Guinea-Bissau – 38
- Ivory Coast – 574
- Kenya – 197
- Lesotho – 0
- Liberia – 50
- Libya – 25
- Madagascar – 106
- Malawi – 13
- Mali – 105
- Mauritania – 7
- Mauritius – 324
- Morocco – 1,661
- Mozambique – 21
- Namibia – 16
- Niger – 529
- Nigeria- 323
- Rwanda – 126
- Sao Tome and Principe – 4
- Senegal – 280
- Seychelles – 11
- Sierra Leone – 10
- Somalia – 25
- South Africa – 2,173
- South Sudan – 4
- Sudan – 19
- Tanzania – 32
- Togo – 76
- Tunisia – 707
- Uganda – 54
- Zambia – 43
- Zimbabwe – 14