Tuesday, May 12, 2020

SOMALIA, DJIBOUTI AND SOUTH AFRICA RECORDS HIGHEST SINGLE-DAY SURGE IN NUMBER OF COVID-19 CASES

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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