Africa surpasses 1 million Covid-19 cases, more than half in South Africa
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The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa has risen to over one million, with more than half registered in South Africa, according to an AFP count late Thursday.
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The continent's worst-hit nation has registered 538,184 infections, including over 8,000 new cases on Thursday, and 9,604 deaths.
Egypt has recorded around 95,000 COVID-19 cases while the figure in Nigeria is 45,000.
South Africa's infection figures are the fifth-highest after the US, Brazil, India and Russia.
Nevertheless the African continent remains one of the least affected, according to the officialRead More – Source
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