Coronavirus spreading in Africa

Africa’s youthful population – median age 19.4 – may help to reduce fatalities but transmission could be harder to prevent in poorly sanitised cities and fragile health systems


COVID-19 cases* (deaths) 

Senegal		31
Gambia		1
Guinea		1
Mauritania	2
Liberia		2 
Ivory Coast 	9 
Ghana		7 
Togo		1 
Benin 		2
Equatorial Guinea 4 
Morocco		54 (2)
Burkina Faso	20 (1)
Algeria		74 (6)
Nigeria 	8
Gabon 		1
Congo 		1
Cameroon 	13
Namibia 	2
Tunisia		29
C.A.R		1
D.R. Congo	4
Zambia		2
Egypt		210 (6) 
Sudan		2 (1)
Ethiopia	6
Eswatini	1
Kenya		7
Djibouti	1
Somalia		1 
Rwanda		8
Tanzania	3

South Africa: 116
Cases rising quickly in Africa’s most industrialised economy


Diversion of resources to fight coronavirus will affect efforts to contain other infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and ebola


*Data as at 12:00GMT, March 19, 2020


Picture: CDC
Source: Johns Hopkins University  
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