The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Africa reached 1,748,335 on Thursday with a death toll of 42,151, according to figures published by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The continent continues to see varying virus tendencies in different regions, with some countries seeing a resurgence in their daily new cases.
South Africa remains the worst affected country by the pandemic in Africa, having reported 719,714 cases and 19,111 fatalities.
The country accounts for 41.17 percent of Africa’s COVID-19 caseload and 45.34 percent of its deaths.
A report by the World Health Organization on Wednesday revealed that the country continues to report the highest number of new infections, having registered 12,115 in the prior seven days.
Morocco is the second-highest affected country on the continent, having recorded 207,718 cases and 3,506 deaths.
Egypt, with 107,030 cases, is the only other African country that has reported more than 100,000 COVID-19 infections.
Further on, a total of nine countries in Africa – including the three aforementioned – have registered more than 50,000 cases.
Kenya, which is the ninth worst-hit country on the continent, has seen a recent upsurge in daily new cases, having seen a decline in its caseload between August and September.
The East African nation reported the second-highest number of new infections in the last seven days before Wednesday. It’s 4,594 new cases were only fewer than the tally reported by South Africa.
In terms of deaths, a total of seven African countries have recorded more than 1,000 COVID-19-related fatalities.
The report by the Africa CDC also showed that by Thursday the continent had recorded 1,430,558 successful recoveries.
