The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to spread in the country despite efforts to stop it spread with death toll also edging up.
COVID-19 cases in Africa have exceeded one million with hopes that the pandemic may be peaking in some countries mingled with fears of a second wave. “African countries are doing their best, despite… limitations,” such as weak health systems, Mary Stephen of the WHO Africa office, told AFP Friday.“Because we don’t see many people like we used to see in Italy, like 1,000 people dying , people tend to relax, they think the risk is not so much in Africa”.Countries with high infections relative to the size of their populations include South Africa, Djibouti, Gabon, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe.
Egypt, which is the first African country to report a coronavirus case has the continent’s second-highest number of cases at 95,006, including 4,630 deaths as of Friday. In June, the caseload rose each day by between 500 and 800 but the pace has dropped more recently to between 300 and 400.A man washes his hands with sanitiser as he arrives at a Mosque following reopening of Mosques and lifting of restrictions on religious gatherings by the government as part of a set of measures taken to curtail the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus at the Secretariat Community Central Mosque, Alausa in Lagos, on August 7, 2020.
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