Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 3m -Africa CDC

By : Editor

Date: 10 January 2021 1:45pm WAT

A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Health worker tends to a mother and her child at a mobile clinic outreach in Manokortuhun village Kenema district July 10, 2020. - Across the impoverished West African state, doctors are warning that disease-prone infants are at increased risk of mortality as their parents avoid hospitals for fear of contracting COVID-19 coronavirus. Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which opened a 63-bed hospital in 2019, says that it has been treating 40-percent fewer people since the virus reached the country in late March (Photo by Saidu BAH / AFP)

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent has reached 3,021,769 as of Sunday morning, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.

According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s Africa COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 72,121.

A total of 2,450,492 people were infected with COVID-19 and have recovered across the continent as of Sunday morning.