The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the African continent has reached 2,830,462 as of Monday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has reached 67,246 as of Monday afternoon.
The Africa CDC, a specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) Commission, also said that a total of 2,343,850 people infected with COVID-19 had recovered from the infectious virus across the continent so far.
The most affected African countries in terms of the number of positive cases include South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Ethiopia, respectively, figures from the Africa CDC showed.
South Africa has the highest number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, at 1,100,748. The country also has the highest COVID-19-inflicted deaths at 29,577 according to the Africa CDC.
Morocco comes next with 443,146 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 7,485 deaths, followed by Tunisia with 143,544 confirmed cases and 4,800 COVID-19-related deaths, it was noted.
Source: GNA
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The Ghana Police has released its DOGs, the MTTD onto the streets this morning to start the year with their usual extortions from motorist. Ministries Police MTTD is currntly starting extortions just by the Tema station junction. These guys are serious thi.eves especially the women amongst them. Public beware and put on your secret recording cameras on when they stop you. They are part of the reasons the NPP lost votes and am suprised somone is not paying attenion to their activities on the road. All they do is to ask for money and extort but this year, Any MTTD officer that Extorts shall die a misera.ble dea.th by care.less motor accident with the st.olen monies in their pockets. If the buy Food with such monies, they shall get chocked by the food. if they buy land, Land guards shall deal with them. If they build, the building shall co.llapse on them on the day they move in. Peace be unto all the honest Police officers, May you do well aboundantly than your opposite colleagues who are thi.e.ves.