The World Health Organization (WHO), the Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, reports that there are more than 1. 6 million cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa.
UN fitness reported on its official regional Twitter account on Thursday.
WHO said in its bookmark that there were more than 1. 6 million COVID-19s on the continent, with more than 1. 3 million cures and 40,000 deaths combined.
South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya have the number of reported cases.
According to the scoreboard: South Africa reported 708,359 cases and 18,741 deaths; Ethiopia had 91,118 cases with 1,384 deaths, while Kenya had 46,144 reported cases and 858 deaths.
Meanwhile, the WHO Regional Office, on its website, said that new immediate diagnostic tests based on approved antigens for the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa would particularly strengthen detection capacity.
The UN’s fitness firm said many African countries had struggled to control enough for the pandemic, with only 12 in the region achieving a key threshold of 10 controls, which is consistent with another 10,000 people consistent with the week of the next month.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, quoted Dr Matshidiso Moeti, who said: “Occasionally they have also failed compared to other countries of similar extension in another region.
“For example, Senegal has a particularly higher capacity, but it is 14 times less than the Netherlands. Nigeria tests 11 times less than Brazil.
“The widespread use of high-quality spot tests in Africa may revolutionize the continent’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. New antigen-based spot tests will satisfy the desire for mass screening in Africa. “