Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA
The numbers of confirmed COVID-19
cases in Djibouti, Somalia and South Africa continued to rise unabated as their
respective Ministries of Health announced new cases on Tuesday.
Somalia recorded its biggest daily
jump in confirmed cases after the Minister of Health reported 81 new infections
in the last 24 hours. This took the total number of infections in the country
to 1,170.
The nation’s total number of
recoveries and deaths from the virus stands at 126 and 52 respectively.
The authorities are working hard to
prop up the country’s public health system which has been decimated by decades
of conflict and avoid the highly damaging effects of the virus.
They are also battling hard to deal
with a range of falsehoods about the virus being propagated within the country
regarding infections and cures.
Meanwhile, Djibouti reported that 29
people had tested positive for coronavirus out of 303 samples. This raised the
nation’s total tally to 1,256 from 16,093 samples tested. The nation’s total
number of recoveries and deaths from the virus stands at 886 and three
respectively.
South Africa on Tuesday reported 698
confirmed COVID-19 cases, the highest surge in a 24-hour cycle since the
country reported its first case in early March.
This brought the total number of
confirmed COVID-19 cases to 11,350, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a
daily update.
The Western Cape Province, the
epicenter of the pandemic, has the highest number of 6,105, followed by Gauteng
with 2,014.
A total of 369,697 tests have been
conducted to date, with 13,630 tests done in the past 24 hours, Mkhize said.
The minister did not report any new
deaths in the past 24 hours. On Monday, the country recorded a total number of
206 deaths nationwide.
According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Djibouti has the highest prevalence on the continent. - Africa
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