As the continent continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the death toll due to it continues to rise across several countries.

South Africa and Egypt are still the top countries with the most positive cases in the continent, with Algeria and Morocco behind them. The current death toll in South Africa currently stands on 93, Egypt 359, Algeria 437 and Morocco’s is at 165. The only countries in the continent with no positive cases are Comoros and Lesotho.

The number of positive cases also continue to rise across states in the continent. Over the last 24 hours, data from the online resource worldometer shows that South Africa recorded 203 new positive cases, Egypt 260, Algeria 132, Morocco 121, Ghana 87, Sudan 43, Somalia 48 and 77 in Guinea.

The continent so far has 33,566 positive cases, 10, 152 recoveries and at least 1,469 deaths according to data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control.

Globally there are currently around 3.1 million positive cases with 928,000 recoveries and 217,000 deaths from the pandemic.