{"id":46714,"date":"2020-04-13T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-africa-covid-19-situation-update-for-the-who-african-region-external-situation-report-6\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:45:07","slug":"coronavirus-africa-covid-19-situation-update-for-the-who-african-region-external-situation-report-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-africa-covid-19-situation-update-for-the-who-african-region-external-situation-report-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus – Africa: COVID-19, Situation update for the WHO African Region, External Situation Report 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak continues to rapidly expand through the African continent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Since our last situation report on 1 April 2020 (External Situation Report 5), three new countries in the WHO African Region, including Malawi, Sao Tome & Principe and South Sudan have reported confirmed COVID-19 cases. Forty-five (96%) out of 47 Member States of the WHO African Region are now affected by the COVID19 pandemic, leaving only Comoros and Lesotho with no reported cases to date.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, the number of cases has nearly doubled and the number of deaths has more than tripled with 3 339 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 229 new deaths reported in the WHO African Region. As of 7 April 2020, a cumulative total of 7 105 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 324 deaths (case fatality ratio 4.6%) have been reported across the 45 affected countries in the region. The list of affected countries and their respective number of cases is presented in Table 1.<\/p>\n

Figure 1 shows the temporal distribution of cases by country. The most affected countries in the WHO African Region are: South Africa (1 749 cases), Algeria (1 468 cases), Cameroon (555 cases), Burkina Faso (364 cases), Cote d\u2019Ivoire (349 cases) and Ghana (287). Together, these countries account for 67% of the cases reported in the region. In the past week, the number of cases in Cameroon and in Algeria have increased by 4 and 2.5 folds, respectively. Fourteen countries have recorded over 100 cumulative confirmed cases. The highest case fatality ratios were observed in Algeria (CFR: 13%) and Burkina Faso (7%). Figures 2 showsthe temporal distribution of cases in these six most affected countries.<\/p>\n

Information on sex and age is currently available for 1 757 and 1 372 cases, respectively. The male to female ratio among the confirmed cases is 1.7, and the median age is 42 years old (range: 0 – 105). The distribution of cases according to age and sex is presented in figure 4; older males continue to be disproportionately affected by this outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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