Coronavirus live updates: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana... cases, deaths and news, today
Coronavirus live updates: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana... cases, deaths and news, today
Coronavirus live Africa: latest Covid-19 news - Friday 5 June
Africa Covid-19 update: 13:30 WAT on Friday 5 June (14:30 CEST)
According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 6,663,729 cases have been detected worldwide, with 391,656 deaths and 2,890,799 people now recovered.
Nigeria: 11,516 cases / 323 deaths
South Africa: 40,792 cases / 848 deaths
Ghana: 8,885 cases / 38 deaths
South Africa: 40,792 cases / 848 deaths
Ghana: 8,885 cases / 38 deaths
S. Africa's COVID-19 cases rise and president worries about Cape Town region
Even as South Africa eases its coronavirus lockdown, infection numbers have started to rise quickly and President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday he was particularly concerned about the province around Cape Town.
Western Cape, whose Table Mountain and wine tours make it a leading tourist destination, has become the country's main coronavirus hotspot, with around two-thirds of the country's total 40,792 cases. It has also recorded 651 out of the the country's total of 848 deaths.
South Africa recorded its largest daily jump of cases on Thursday, with 3,267 new cases.
Ramaphosa visited Cape Town on Friday to be briefed on efforts to tackle the virus, including the opening of a new temporary field hospital for mild to moderately sick patients.
"The Western Cape is the epicentre for COVID-19 infections and this concerns us deeply," he said.
As South Africa records Africa’s highest coronavirus case numbers in Africa, the country’s top vaccine expert, Prof Shabir Madhi says hospitals could be overwhelmed within a matter of weeks.
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It's not over': COVID-19 cases rise in some nations easing lockdowns - WHO
Some countries have seen "upticks" in COVID-19 cases as lockdowns ease, and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
The epicentre of the pandemic is currently in countries of Central, South and North America, particularly the United States, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said.
"On upticks (in cases), yes we have seen in countries around the world - I'm not talking specifically about Europe - when the lockdowns ease, when the social distancing measures ease, people sometimes interpret this as 'OK, it's over'," Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
"It's not over. It's not over until there is no virus anywhere in the world," she said.
Congo faces triple threat of coronavirus, Ebola and measles
As the world races to stem the coronavirus, Democratic Republic of Congo is racing to also stop the spread of measles and a new outbreak of Ebola, leaving women delaying reproductive health needs, aid groups warned.
Congo is also facing armed conflict, bringing with it sexual violence against women who, as caregivers, are often on the frontlines of caring for the sick and at higher risk of falling ill and also often blamed for spreading these viruses.
"One of these challenges by itself is very crippling," said Robert Ghosn, head of emergency operations for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in DRC.
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Over 168,000 cases on African continent
South Africa still remains the African nation suffering most from the pandemic with over 40,000 confirmed cases of the virus.
Over 168,464 confirmed #COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 73,000 recoveries & 4,700 deaths. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: arcg.is/XvuSX
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