The Guardian : Jun 10, 2020, 08:48 PM
Lagos: There are now more than over 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.Major African stats: June 10 at 7:00 GMT:Confirmed cases = 202,864Number of deaths = 5,539Recoveries = 90,813Active cases = 106,512Countries in alphabetical orderAlgeria – 10,382Angola – 96Benin – 305Botswana – 42Burkina Faso – 891Burundi – 83Cameroon – 8,312Cape Verde – 585Central African Republic – 1,850Chad – 844Comoros – 141Congo-Brazzaville – 728DR Congo – 4,259Djibouti – 4,331Egypt – 36,829Equatorial Guinea – 1,306Eritrea – 40Eswatini – 371Ethiopia – 2,336Gabon – 3,247(The) Gambia – 28Ghana – 10,201Guinea – 4,258Guinea-Bissau – 1,389Ivory Coast – 3,995Kenya – 2,989Lesotho – 4Liberia – 383Libya – 359Madagascar – 1,138Malawi – 455Mali – 1,586Mauritania – 1,164Mauritius – 337Morocco – 8,437Mozambique – 453Namibia – 31Niger – 974Nigeria- 13,464Rwanda – 463Sao Tome and Principe – 514Senegal – 4,516Seychelles – 11Sierra Leone – 1,025Somalia – 2,416South Africa – 52,991South Sudan – 1,604Sudan – 6,427Tanzania – 509Togo – 501Tunisia – 1,087Uganda – 657Zambia – 1,200Zimbabwe – 314